Superfamily Cellarioidea Fleming 1828 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata

Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015

See also Berning 2006 and Schmidt 2003

Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Celleporoidea, Schizoporelloidea, Siphonicytaroidea

Subtaxa: Cellariidae

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Type: Cellaria

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (4 collections), Costa Rica (3), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), United States (6: California)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (6), Belgium (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (4), Spain (3), United States (2: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)

• Miocene of Australia (7), the Czech Republic (13), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), Ukraine (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (11)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), Germany (2), New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of New Zealand (5), Tonga (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Cenozoic of Australia (5)

Total: 126 collections including 249 occurrences

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