Smitticellaria Gordon and Taylor 1999 (bryozoan)

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

Parent taxon: Cellariidae according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 1999

Sister taxa: Acerinucleus, Atelestozoum, Cellaria, Cryptostomaria, Dimorphocellaria, Erinella, Escharicellaria, Euginoma, Hemistylus, Larvapora, Melicerita, Mesostomaria, Pseudocellaria, Stomhypselosaria, Syringotrema

Subtaxa: Smitticellaria morioriana

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Pukekio, Chatham Island (Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand)

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