Superfamily Flustroidea Fleming 1828 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata

Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon 2012

See also Berning 2006 and Di Martino and Taylor 2014

Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Austroflustra, Bicorniferidae, Bifaxarioidea, Brettia, Brydonellidae, Buguloidea, Catenicelloidea, Cellarioidea, Celleporoidea, Chlidoniopsoidea, Conescharellinoidea, Cuvillieridae, Didymoselloidea, Dysnoetoporoidea, Euthyriselloidea, Fusicellariidae, Hoeverella, Klugeflustra, Mamilloporoidea, Mourellinidae, Neoflustra, Pseudolepralioidea, Schizoporelloidea, Scorioporoidea, Siphonicytaroidea, Skyloniidae, Smittinoidea, Taeniocellaria, Taenioporinoidea, Urceoliporoidea

Subtaxa: Flustridae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Portugal (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (1), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alabama, Florida, Georgia)

• Cretaceous of France (1)

• Triassic of Italy (1)

Total: 30 collections including 33 occurrences

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