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Onychocella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1005856	https://www.gbif.org/species/1005856
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26088	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26088

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Onychocellidae : Onychocella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Onychocellidae : Onychocella

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	Flustrina	Smitt 1868
superfamily	Microporoidea	Gray 1848
family	Onychocellidae	Jullien 1882
genus	Onychocella	Jullien 1882

Scientific Name

Onychocella Jullien, 1882

Name Published In

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 6, 1881

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Onychocella	genus	belongs to Onychocellidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1958
Onychocella	genus	belongs to Cheilostomata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Onychocella	genus	belongs to Onychocellidae	stated without evidence	Schmidt, 2003
Onychocella	genus	belongs to Onychocellidae	stated with evidence	Berning, 2006
Onychocella	genus	belongs to Onychocellidae	stated without evidence	Guha, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 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

8.5 % MgCO3

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite

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
Onychocella alula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella angulosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Onychocella antiqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella arctica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella calvimontana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella cavernosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella celsa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella concatenata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella cucullata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella depressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella dimorpha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella dupliciter species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella elliptica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella falunica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella georgiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella laciniosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella lamellosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Onychocella marioni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella meijeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella pockrandti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella pseudoirregularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella regularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella spinifera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Onychocella subirregularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella subpalpigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella subsymmetrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella subtriangulata ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Onychocella torquata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Onychocella tuberculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onychocella vibraculifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Onychocella Jullien
1958	Onychocella Brown
1981	Onychocella Voigt p. 291
1999	Onychocella Gordon and Taylor
2000	Onychocella Pouyet
2002	Onychocella Sepkoski, Jr.

Year	Name and Author
2003	Onychocella Schmidt
2006	Onychocella Berning p. 40
2006	Onychocella Bock
2013	Onychocella Di Martino and Taylor p. 89
2013	Onychocella Guha
2015	Onychocella Gordon and Taylor

References

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

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

Voigt E. (1981) Upper Cretaceous bryozoan-seagrass association in the Maastrichtian of the Netherlands, Recent and Fossil Bryozoa, 281-298

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

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

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

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

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

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 6, 1881 - 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

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

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 Marine Species

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