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Ascophorina

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	356568	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=356568

Rank

infraorder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Ascophorina

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	(Levinsen 1909)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated without evidence	Canu and Bassler, 1935
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated with evidence	Cheetham, 1972
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated without evidence	Boardman and Cheetham, 1987
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomatida	stated without evidence	Pouyet, 2000
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated without evidence	Schmidt, 2003
Ascophorina	infraorder	belongs to Neocheilostomina	stated with evidence	Grischenko and Gordon, 2004
Ascophorina	suborder	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated without evidence	Zagorsek et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

672

Extant Size (PBDB)

299 (44%)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

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 Cheilostomata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. S. Boardman and A. H. Cheetham. 1987. Phylum Bryozoa. Fossil Invertebrates

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Arachnopusioidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	64	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Catenicelloidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cribrilinoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	202	443 Ma Silurian	0 Ma Extant
Hippothooidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	39	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Bifaxariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Celleporariidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Cleidochasmatidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Conescharellinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Crepidacanthidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	19.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Hippoporinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Phylactellidae family	listed (PBDB)	1	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Reteporidae family	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Sertellidae family	listed (PBDB)	7	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Siphonicytaridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Spiroporinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Tetraplariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Tubucellariidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Basyaylella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acanthostega unranked clade	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Hippothoomorpha unranked clade	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Lepraliomorpha unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	1,366	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	0 Ma Extant
Umbonulomorpha unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	456	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1909	Ascophora Levinsen
1935	Ascophora Canu and Bassler
1952	Ascophora Brown
1956	Ascophora Brown
1958	Ascophora Brown
1962	Ascophora Cheetham p. 327
1970	Ascophora Scolaro p. 97
1972	Ascophora Cheetham
1987	Ascophora Boardman and Cheetham p. 537
1994	Ascophorina Gordon et al.

Year	Name and Author
1999	Ascophorina Gordon and Taylor
2000	Ascophora Pouyet
2003	Ascophora Schmidt
2004	Ascophora Grischenko and Gordon p. 169
2006	Ascophorina Berning p. 45
2007	Ascophorina Guha and Gipikrishna p. 808
2010	Ascophora Zagorsek et al.
2013	Ascophora Di Martino and Taylor p. 91
2013	Ascophora Zagorsek and Gordon p. 598
2015	Ascophorina Di Martino and Taylor

References

Boardman R. S., Cheetham A. H. (1987) Phylum Bryozoa, Fossil Invertebrates, 497-549

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

Cheetham A. H. (1962) Eocene bryozoa from the McBean Formation in Georgia, Micropaleontology 8 3, 323-336

Scolaro R. J. (1970) Note on Miocene Bryozoa from northwestern Florida, Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 8 2, 93-98

Cheetham A. H. (1972) Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 640-E

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

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

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

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., Gipikrishna K. (2007) New fossil steginoporellid and schizoporellid species (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Tertiary sequences of western Kachchh, Gujarat and their significance, Journal of the Geological Society of India 69, 803-812

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

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

Zagorsek K., Gordon D. P. (2013) Late Tortonian bryozoans from Mut Basin, Central Anatolian Plateau, southern Turkey, Acta Paleontologica Polonica 58, 595-607

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

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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