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Microporella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1008982	https://www.gbif.org/species/1008982
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26055	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26055

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Microporellidae : Microporella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Microporellidae : Microporella

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	Cheilostomata	Busk 1859
suborder	Neocheilostomina	d'Hondt 1985
infraorder	Ascophorina
-	Lepraliomorpha
superfamily	Schizoporelloidea	Jullien 1883
family	Microporellidae
genus	Microporella	Hincks 1877

Scientific Name

Microporella Hincks, 1877

Name Published In

Hincks, Thomas. 1877. On British Polyzoa.—Part II. Classification. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 4 20(120): 520–532.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Microporella	genus	belongs to Microporellidae	stated with evidence	Ulrich and Bassler, 1904
Microporella	genus	belongs to Microporellae	stated without evidence	Canu and Bassler, 1935
Microporella	genus	belongs to Microporellidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1952
Microporella	genus	belongs to Cheilostomata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Microporella	genus	belongs to Microporellidae	stated with evidence	Berning, 2006
Microporella	genus	belongs to Microporellidae	stated without evidence	Guha and Gopikrishna, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

10 (56%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cheilostomata)

Vision

blind (based on Gymnolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cheilostomata)

Reproduction

oviparous, brooding (based on Cheilostomata)

Taphonomy

intermediate Mg calcite (based on Microporellidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lepralia inamoena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lepralia macropora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella acicularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella agonistes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella alaskana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ampla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella antarctica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella antiborealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella appendiculata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella arctica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella areolata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella aspera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella berningi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Microporella bicristata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella bifoliata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Microporella borealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella browni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella cailleti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Microporella californica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella candeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella catalinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ciliata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella clypeiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella collaroides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella coronata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella coronula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella cribellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella cribosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella cribrosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella crustula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella cucullata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella curta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella decussata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella dentilingua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella diademata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella dimidiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella discors species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella divaricata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella donovani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella echinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella elegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella epihalimeda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ferrea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Microporella fimbriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella fissurifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella flabelligera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella formosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella franklini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella galapagensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella gappai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella genisii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella germana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella gibbera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella gibbosula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella harmeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella hastigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella hastingsae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella hawaiiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella hexagona species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella huanghaiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella hyadesi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella impressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella inamoena ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Microporella inermis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella inflata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Microporella infundibulipora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella intermedia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ketchikanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella klugei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella laticella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella lepralioides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella lepueana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella lineata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella luellae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella lunifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella macropora species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Microporella madiba species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella maldiviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella mandibulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella marsupiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella mayensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella mazatlanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella micropora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella monilifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella mutabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella neocribroides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella nidulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella normani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ordo species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	1.63 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella orientalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella pectinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella personata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella peschongi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella plana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella planata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella pontifica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella praeciliata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Microporella protea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella proxima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella pulchra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella regularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella rogickae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella sanmiguelensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella santabarbarensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella serrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella setiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella soulieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella sparsiporosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella speciosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella speculum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Microporella spicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella stellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella stenoporta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella svalbardensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella tractabilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella trigonellata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella typica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella umbonata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella umboniformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella umbonula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella umbraeula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella unca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella vacuatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella ventricosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella vibraculifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Microporella waghotensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Microporella wrigleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Microporelloides Soule, Chaney & Morris, 2003	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Microporellidae : *Microporelloides*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1877	Microporella Hincks
1904	Microporella Ulrich and Bassler p. 415
1935	Microporella Canu and Bassler
1952	Microporella Brown
1958	Microporella Brown
2000	Microporella Pouyet

Year	Name and Author
2002	Microporella Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Microporella Berning p. 100
2007	Microporella Guha and Gopikrishna
2010	Microporella Zagorsek et al.
2013	Microporella Guha
2015	Microporella Di Martino and Taylor

References

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

Ulrich E. O., Bassler R. S. (1904) Bryozoa, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 430-431

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

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

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

Pouyet S. (2000) Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne), Revista Española de Paleontología 15 2, 181-202

Berning B. (2006) The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications, Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 90, 7-156

Guha A. K., Gopikrishna K. (2007) Some fossil ascophoran bryozoan taxa from Tertiary sequences of western Kachchh, Gujarat, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 52 2, 195-222

Zagorsek K., Filipescu S., et al (2010) New Middle Miocene Bryozoa from Gârbova de Sus (Romania) and their relationship to the sedimentary environment, Geologica Carpathica 61 6, 495-512 doi:10.2478/v10096-010-0031-2

Guha A. K. (2013) Tertiary bryozoa from Western Kachchh, Gujarat - A Review, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 58 1, 3-15

Di Martino E., Taylor P. D. (2015) Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part II: ‘Ascophoran’ Cheilostomata., Scripta Geologica 148, 1-142

Gordon, D. P.; Taylor, P. D.; Bigey, F. P. (2009). Phylum Bryozoa: moss animals, sea mats, lace corals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 271-297. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Hincks, T. (1877). LXVI. On British Polyzoa. Part II. Classification. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20(4):520-538. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 20 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - 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

Hincks, T. (1877). LXVI. On British Polyzoa. Part II. Classification. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20(4):520-538. - via World Register of Marine Species

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

Obst, Matthias (2008) Svenska Bryozoa 080305. Excelfil. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 458 Determination of the interpretation of the nominal species Eschara vulgaris Moll, 1803 (class Ectoprocta).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 15(24), 433-442 (1957) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

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