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Arachnopusiidae

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The Arachnopusiidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomata.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnopusiidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5793	https://www.gbif.org/species/5793
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	118736	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=118736

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Arachnopusiidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Arachnopusiidae

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
superfamily	Arachnopusioidea	Jullien 1888
family	Arachnopusiidae	Jullien 1888

Scientific Name

Arachnopusiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated without evidence	Jullien, 1888
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Anasca	stated without evidence	Canu and Bassler, 1935
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Membraniporidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1952
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Anasca	stated without evidence	Brown, 1956
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Membraniporidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1958
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated without evidence	Gordon et al., 1994
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Cheilostomatida	stated without evidence	Lee et al., 1997
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Ascophorina	stated without evidence	Gordon and Taylor, 1999
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated without evidence	Schmidt, 2003
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated with evidence	Berning, 2006
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated without evidence	Bock, 2006
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated without evidence	Guha and Gopikrishna, 2007
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated with evidence	Di Martino and Taylor, 2013
Arachnopusiidae	family	belongs to Arachnopusioidea	stated without evidence	Di Martino and Taylor, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cheilostomata)

Vision

blind (based on Gymnolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cheilostomata)

Reproduction

oviparous, brooding (based on Cheilostomata)

Ecospace Comments

85% calcite with mean 5.3% MgCO3 based on 15 specimens

Taphonomy

intermediate Mg calcite, aragonite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Bock. 2006. http://bryozoa.net.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnopusiidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arachnopusia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		43	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Biconcavus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Brendella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Briarachnia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Moyanopora ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Poricella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Quasitrilaminopora ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Ramicosticella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tremogasterina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Trichinopolia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Trilaminopora genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Arachnopodiidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Arachnopodiidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1888	Arachnopusiidae Jullien
1935	Arachnopusiidae Canu and Bassler
1952	Arachnopusiidae Brown
1956	Arachnopusiidae Brown
1958	Arachnopusiidae Brown
1994	Arachnopusiidae Gordon et al.
1997	Arachnopusiidae Lee et al.
1999	Arachnopusiidae Gordon and Taylor

Year	Name and Author
2003	Arachnopusiidae Schmidt
2006	Arachnopusiidae Berning p. 58
2006	Arachnopusiidae Bock
2007	Arachnopusiidae Guha and Gopikrishna
2013	Arachnopusiidae Di Martino and Taylor p. 93
2015	Arachnopusiidae Di Martino and Taylor
2015	Arachnopusiidae Gordon and Taylor

References

Bock P. (2006) http://bryozoa.net

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. (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

Gordon D. P., Stuart I. G., et al (1994) Bryozoan fauna of the Kaipuke Siltstone, northwest Nelson: a Miocene homologue of the modern Tasman Bay coralline bryozoan grounds, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 37 3, 239-247 doi:10.1080/00288306.1994.9514619

Lee D. E., Scholz J., et al (1997) Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand, Palaios 12 6, 568-581 doi:10.2307/3515412

Gordon D. P., Taylor P. D. (1999) Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London: Geology Series 55 1, 1-45

Schmidt R. (2003) Eocene bryozoa of the St. Vincent Basin, south Australia – taxonomy, biogeography and palaeoenvironments, 1-343

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

Di Martino E., Taylor P. D. (2013) First bryozoan fauna from a tropical Cretaceous carbonate: Simsima Formation, United Arab Emirates-Oman border region, Cretaceous Research 43, 80-96

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. (2015) Bryozoa of the Early Eocene Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, New Zealand, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1-88 doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.991905

Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114. - via World Register of Marine Species

Gordon, Dennis - via World Register of Marine Species

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

Bock, P. (2000-current). The Bryozoa Home Page. Available online at http://www.bryozoa.net/ (consulted Dec 2006). - 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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