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Selenaria

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1005306	https://www.gbif.org/species/1005306
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26211	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26211

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Selenariidae : Selenaria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
-	Polyzoa
phylum	Bryozoa	Ehrenberg 1831
class	Gymnolaemata	Allman 1856
order	Cheilostomatida	Busk 1852
family	Selenariidae	Busk 1854
genus	Selenaria	Busk 1854

Scientific Name

Selenaria Busk, 1854

Name Published In

Cat. mar. Polyzoa Brit. Mus., 2

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Selenaria	genus	belongs to Opesiulidae	stated without evidence	Canu and Bassler, 1935
Selenaria	genus	belongs to Microporidae	stated without evidence	Stach, 1936
Selenaria	genus	belongs to Selenariidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1952
Selenaria	genus	belongs to Cheilostomata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (54%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Bryozoa)

Vision

blind (based on Gymnolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Bryozoa)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, aragonite (based on Gymnolaemata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Selenaria auricularia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria bimorphocella species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Selenaria concinna species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria cupola species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Selenaria exasperans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria grandicella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Selenaria hexagonalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria initia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria kayae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria kompseia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria macgillivrayi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	33.9 Ma Oligocene	1.63 Ma Pleistocene
Selenaria maculata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Selenaria magnipunctata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Selenaria maplestonei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria marginata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Selenaria meganae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria minor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria nitida species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	19.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Selenaria occidenta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria parapunctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria pulchella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria punctata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Selenaria trifoliata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Selenaria varians species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Selenaria verconis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1935	Selenaria Canu and Bassler
1936	Selenaria Stach
1952	Selenaria Brown
1956	Selenaria Brown
1958	Selenaria Brown
2002	Selenaria Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Canu F., Bassler R. S. (1935) New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 93 9, 1-54

Stach L. W. (1936) South Australian Cainozoic Bryozoa. Part 1, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 60, 127-136

Brown D. A. (1952) The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand, 1-405

Brown D. A. (1956) Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 104, 593-611 doi:10.1080/00222935608655864

Brown D. A. (1958) Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria 20

CAAB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Ryland, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Cat. mar. Polyzoa Brit. Mus., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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