Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 329307

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

Belongs to Smittina according to D. A. Brown 1958

Sister taxa: Smittina acaroensis, Smittina bathydonta, Smittina canavarii, Smittina cervicornis, Smittina crepidula, Smittina cribraria, Smittina denticulifera, Smittina eagari, Smittina flexuosa, Smittina inarmata, Smittina landsborovii, Smittina marionensis, Smittina messiniensis, Smittina ordinata, Smittina parviovicellosa, Smittina perforata, Smittina purpurea, Smittina rogickae, Smittina trispinosa, Smittina unispinosa, Smittia ordinata

Type specimen: MGSV, 53071. Its type locality is Dartmoor, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine limestone in Australia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder