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Family Petraliellidae Harmer 1957 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Petraliellidae

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

See also Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003

Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae

Subtaxa: Mobunula Mucropetraliella Orbiculipora Petraliella Poripetraliella Riscodopa Sinupetraliella Utinga

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Type: Petraliella

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Panama (1)

• Pliocene of New Zealand (3), Panama (1)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)

• Miocene of Australia (2), India (2), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

Total: 17 collections including 21 occurrences

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