Hippoporella (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae

Parent taxon: Phidoloporidae according to B. Berning 2006

See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Canu and Bassler 1935 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Hippopozoon, Lifuella, Plesiocleidochasma, Psilosecos, Reteporella, Rhynchozoon, Schedocleidochasma, Schizoretepora, Schizotheca, Stephanollona

Subtaxa: Hippoporella pauper Hippoporella testu

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Greenland (1), United States (3: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Pliocene of Panama (7)

• Miocene of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (8), Morocco (2), Panama (1), Spain (2)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama)

Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences

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