Family Microporellidae Hincks 1879 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae

Synonym: Fenestrulinidae Jullien 1888

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

See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Pouyet 2000, Ulrich and Bassler 1904 and Zagorsek et al. 2010

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

Subtaxa: Adelascopora Calloporina Cribriporella Diporula Fenestrulina Flustramorpha Microporella Tenthrenulina

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Type: Microporella

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), United States (8: California, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (5: California)

• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Czechia (6), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)

Total: 73 collections including 117 occurrences

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