†family Lunulitidae Lagaaij 1952 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae

Parent taxon: Microporoidea according to A. V. Koromyslova and V. B. Seltser 2020

See also Bassler 1953, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1962 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Aspidostomatidae, Cianotremella, Coscinopleuridae, Microporidae, Onychocellidae

Subtaxa: Discoflustrellaria Luganella Lunulites Oligotresium Pavolunulites Volviflustrellaria

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Type: Lunulites

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Australia (2 collections)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)

• Miocene of Brazil (9), France (1), Germany (32), Spain (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (6), United States (5: Mississippi)

• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (56: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene of New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Denmark (26), France (2), Germany (12), the Netherlands (2), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 174 collections including 222 occurrences

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