Superfamily Membraniporoidea Busk 1852 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata

Parent taxon: Membraniporina according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021

See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Schmidt 2003, Zagorsek and Gordon 2013 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Electridae Membraniporidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Greenland (3), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (17: California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (16), Portugal (1), Spain (3)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (8)

• Miocene of Australia (2), Belgium (2), Brazil (4), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (49), India (4), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (8), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Ukraine (4), United States (10: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)

• Oligocene of Australia (3), Germany (2), India (1), New Zealand (1), United States (5: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), India (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (2), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (5), United States (12: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Denmark (2), Sweden (1), United States (11: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), France (3), Japan (7), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (21: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 290 collections including 502 occurrences

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