Porella excavata Canu and Bassler 1935 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae

Full reference: F. Canu and R. S. Bassler. 1935. New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 93(9):1-54

Belongs to Porella according to F. Canu and R. S. Bassler 1935

Sister taxa: Porella angustata, Porella baculina, Porella concreta, Porella cylindrorostris, Porella dennanti, Porella flabellaris, Porella marsupium, Porella otwayensis, Porella rhomboidalis, Porella rogeri, Porella tiorioriensis, Porella tuberosa

Type specimen: U.S.N.M. no. 85838.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Anticline Creek, Dartmoor (Oligocene of Australia)

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