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Buffonellaria

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae

Taxonomy
Buffonellaria is a genus. It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Stephanosella by Bassler (1953).

It was assigned to Celleporidae by Lee et al. (1997), Schmidt (2003), Kiessling (2003), Berning (2006), Guha (2013) and Di Martino and Taylor (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1997Buffonellaria Lee et al.
2003Buffonellaria Kiessling
2003Buffonellaria Schmidt
2006Buffonellaria Berning p. 114
2013Buffonellaria Guha
2015Buffonellaria Di Martino and Taylor

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
RankNameAuthor
phylumBryozoaEhrenberg 1831
classGymnolaemataAllman 1856
orderCheilostomataBusk 1859
suborderNeocheilostominad'Hondt 1985
superfamilyCelleporoideaJohnston 1838
familyCelleporidaeBusk 1852
genusBuffonellaria

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Buffonellaria sagittaria Di Martino and Taylor 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: intermediate Mg calcitef
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: oviparouso
Brooding: yeso
Created: 2008-02-26 04:59:42
Modified: 2008-02-27 04:17:19
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade
References: Smith et al. 2006, Nesnidal et al. 2013

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Gelasian or 38.00000 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9New Zealand (North Otago) B. sp. (172815 172816)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1USA (Alabama) Stephanosella entomostoma (90528 90549 90562)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97India B. cornuata (178702)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Indonesia B. sagittaria (173651)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Romania B. kuklinskii (178089)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Czech Republic B. sp. (178895 178898)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Spain B. divergens (178465) Stephanosella entomostoma (177482 177485 177486)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Morocco Stephanosella entomostoma (34723)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Portugal B. sp. (152330)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greece B. divergens (71243)