Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Full reference: D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor. 1999. Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London: Geology Series 55(1):1-45
Belongs to Cellaria according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 1999
Sister taxa: Cellaria adamantina, Cellaria attenuata, Cellaria australis, Cellaria biaperta, Cellaria bicornis, Cellaria bicuspidata, Cellaria contigua, Cellaria cucullata, Cellaria dennanti, Cellaria depressa, Cellaria elementaria, Cellaria enormis, Cellaria fistulosa, Cellaria gigas, Cellaria grandis, Cellaria immersa, Cellaria inarticulata, Cellaria melillensis, Cellaria mitrata, Cellaria myaringensis, Cellaria orbicularia, Cellaria palatum, Cellaria perampla, Cellaria perexigua, Cellaria pilosa, Cellaria rigida, Cellaria robusta, Cellaria setigera, Cellaria stachi, Cellaria tenuirostris, Cellaria tumida, Cellaria variabilis, Cellaria veteripontis, Melicerita angustiloba
Type specimen: IGNS BZ 193. Its type locality is Pukekio, Chatham Island, which is in a Thanetian/Ypresian transition zone/lower shoreface conglomerate/conglomerate in the Red Bluff Tuff Formation of New Zealand.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Pukekio, Chatham Island
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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