Lunulites adunca Brown 1958 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae

Full reference: D. A. Brown. 1958. Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria (20)

Belongs to Lunulites according to D. A. Brown 1958

Sister taxa: Lunulites canaliculata, Lunulites capulus, Lunulites conulus, Lunulites cretacea, Lunulites foveolata, Lunulites immensa, Lunulites ligulata, Lunulites microstoma, Lunulites parvicella, Lunulites patens, Lunulites pseudocretacea, Lunulites radiata, Lunulites vespertilio

Type specimen: MGSV, 53007. Its type locality is Glenelg Group (Myaring Beds), which is in a Miocene/Oligocene marine claystone in Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Glenelg Group (Myaring Beds)

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