Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
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 Melychocella according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 1999
Sister taxa: Melychocella bilamellata, Melychocella obliqua
Type specimen: IGNS BZ 197-1. 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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