Bryozoan faunas at the Tortonian-Messinian transition. A palaeoenvironmental case study from Crete Island, eastern Mediterranean Author Moissette, Pierre National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology 15784, Athens (Greece) and CR 2 P (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Université), Département Origines et Évolution, UMR 7207, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pmoissette@geol.uoa.gr Author Antonarakou, Assimina National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) aantonar@geol.uoa.gr Author Kontakiotis, George National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) gkontak@geol.uoa.gr Author Cornée, Jean-Jacques Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier Université des Antilles, CNRS, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, FWI (France) jean-jacques.cornee@gm.univ-montp2.fr Author Karakitsios, Vasileios National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) vkarak@geol.uoa.gr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-12-16 43 26 1365 1400 journal article 20894 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a26 f8cedc0a-01dc-4bb0-855b-18064d237655 1638-9395 5796571 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:14A6956D-54AD-48D2-9C5E-BA380EDACAA4 Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816 ( Fig. 10 F-H) Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816: 127 . — Audouin 1826: 236 ; Savigny 1817 : pl. 6, fig. 7. — Prenant & Bobin 1966: 382 , text-fig. 124. — Ryland & Hayward 1977: 124 , text-figs 56A, 59. — Poluzzi & Padovani 1984: 109 , fig.5d.— Zabala 1986: 307 , text-fig.84:3a-e; pl.3, figs E-F.— Moissette 1988: 104 , pl.17, figs 1-2. — Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 94 , text-figs 137-140; pl. 2, fig. H. — Schmid 1989: 18 , pl. 4, figs 3-6. — El Hajjaji 1992: 129 , pl.6, fig.7. — Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995: 788 , pl. 3, fig. 1. — Haddadi-Hamdane 1996: 71, pl. 6, figs 12- 13. — López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez1996: 158, figs 1C, 3A-F, 4. OCCURRENCE. — Early Miocene: France ( Pouyet 1991 ). Middle Miocene: Austria ( Schmid 1989 ), Hungary ( Moissette et al. 2006 ), Czech Republic , Poland ( Pouyet 1997 ). Late Miocene: Morocco ( El Hajjaji 1992 ), Algeria ( Moissette 1988 ). Pliocene: Algeria (Haddadi-Hamdane 1996), Crete. Pleistocene: Sicily ( Poluzzi & Padovani 1984 ), Rhodes ( Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995 ). Recent: eastern Atlantic ( Morocco , Madeira, up to the Shetland Islands), Mediterranean, Red Sea. The species has been recorded from the Atlantic at depths of 0-360 m (and even down to 636 m in Morocco ).In the Mediterranean, it occurs from the shallow infralittoral down to 280 m . REMARKS A number of specimens, especially those from the Faneromeni section, resemble C. salicornioides var. normani , a variety created by Hastings (1946) and considered as a distinct species, C. normani , by Prenant & Bobin (1966) . However, López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez (1996) considered that the slight morphological differences (more slender internodes and larger avicularia in C. normani ) do not justify the erection of a distinct taxon.