Smittoidea (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae

Parent taxon: Smittinidae according to B. Berning 2006

See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Hemismittoidea, Parasmittina, Plagiosmittia, Pleurocodonellina, Prenantia, Schismoporella, Smittina

Subtaxa: Smittoidea crepidula Smittoidea pacifica Smittoidea reticulata

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Greece (1), Greenland (1)

• Pliocene of Panama (1), Portugal (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene of Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (3)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1)

Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences

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