Tetraplaria Tenison-Woods 1879 (bryozoan)
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Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae
Synonym: Bigemellaria MacGillivray 1895
Parent taxon: Tetraplariidae according to A. H. Cheetham 1972
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1958, Crespin 1944 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Tetraplaria australis Tetraplaria pedunculata Tetraplaria simata Tetraplaria turgida
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Panama (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)
• Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Eocene of India (1), Tonga (2), United States (6: Florida)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences
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