Adeonidae

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Description

The Adeonidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomata. Colonies are often upright bilaminar branches or sheets, perforated by large holes in some species (e.g. Adeona cellulosa). The zooids generally have one or more adventitious avicularia on their frontal wall. Instead of ovicells the adeonids often possess enlarged polymorphs which brood the larvae internally.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2095	https://www.gbif.org/species/2095
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	118657	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=118657

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Adeonidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Adeonidae

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
-	Umbonulomorpha	Gordon 1989
superfamily	Adeonoidea	Busk 1884
family	Adeonidae	Busk 1884

Scientific Name

Adeonidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Adeonidae	family	belongs to Ascophora	stated without evidence	Brown, 1952
Adeonidae	family	belongs to Adeonoidea	stated without evidence	Schmidt, 2003
Adeonidae	family	belongs to Adeonoidea	stated with evidence	Grischenko and Gordon, 2004
Adeonidae	family	belongs to Cheilostomata	stated with evidence	Bock, 2006
Adeonidae	family	belongs to Adeonoidea	stated without evidence	Di Martino and Taylor, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

15 (52%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

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

mean weight-% calcite=6.8 based on 46 specimens

Taphonomy

aragonite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Wikipedia

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

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adeona genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	34.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Adeonella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	14	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Adeonellopsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	69	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Anarthropora genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Bracebridgia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cucullipora genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Dimorphocella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Kubaninella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Laminopora genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Reptadeonella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Schizostomella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Teichopora ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	56.0 Ma Paleocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Trigonopora genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	20	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

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

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Adeonidae Busk
1952	Adeonidae Brown
1956	Adeonidae Brown
1958	Adeonidae Brown
2000	Adeonidae Pouyet
2003	Adeonidae Schmidt

Year	Name and Author
2004	Adeonidae Grischenko and Gordon p. 173
2006	Adeonidae Berning p. 60
2006	Adeonidae Bock
2015	Adeonidae Di Martino and Taylor
2015	Adeonidae Gordon and Taylor

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (1999). Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: part 2 Hippothooidea - Celleporoidea: notes for the identification of British species. 2nd ed.. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 14. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-263-3. vii, 416 pp. - 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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