Family Heteroporidae Waters 1880 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Tubuliporata - Heteroporidae

Parent taxon: Cerioporina according to M. ZatoĊ„ et al. 2013

See also Bassler 1953 and Gordon and Taylor 1999

Sister taxa: Cavidae, Cerioporidae, Corymboporidae, Densiporidae, Leiosoeciidae, Tretocycloeciidae

Subtaxa: Acanthopora Biflabellaria Borgiola Canalipora Cerioporella Defranciopora Densipora Filicava Globulipora Heteropora Heteroporella Marssoniella Multicrescis Neofungella Neuroporella Ramia Reptomulticava Ripisoecia Seminodicrescis Sparsicytis Spinopora Tetrocycloecia

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Type: Heteropora

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: California, Oregon collections)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1)

• Miocene of Czechia (3), Germany (2)

• Oligocene of Malta (1)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Chile (1), France (33), Germany (3), Greece (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), Switzerland (5), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), France (1)

• Triassic of Italy (1), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 76 collections including 101 occurrences

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