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 Crisia denticulata ( Lamarck, 1816 ) ( Fig. 8 D-F) Cellaria denticulata Lamarck, 1816: 137 . Crisia denticulata – Vávra 1975: 523 , pl. 1, fig. 1. — Hayward & Ryland 1985: 54 , fig. 16. — Poluzzi et al. 1988: 64, figs 15b-d. — Poluzzi & Rosso 1988: 99 , pl. 1, fig. 1. — Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 165 , text-figs 480-482, pl. 29B. — Bobies 1958: 153 , pl. 13, figs 5-7. — Marcopoulou-Diacantoni & Wuest 1999: 552, pl. 2, fig. 6. OCCURRENCE. — Middle Miocene: Austria , Hungary , Czech Republic ( Bobies 1958 ; Vávra 1975 ). Late Miocene: Sardinia, Sicily ( Moissette et al. 2002 ). Pliocene: UK , Netherlands ( Lagaaij 1952 ), Belgium , Crete (Marcopoulou-Diacantoni & Wuest 1999). Pleistocene: Sicily ( Rosso 1987 ). Recent: western and eastern Atlantic ( Canada to Gulf of Mexico, Madeira, Azores, Norway to Ghana ), Mediterranean. This species lives at depths between 0 and 100 m , but it is associated with deep-water-corals in Norway (Sula Reef: 275-295 m ; Mortensen & Fosså 2006 ) and in the Bay of Biscay ( Calvet 1896 ). REMARKS C. denticulata closely resembles the fossil species C. hoernesi Reuss , which however has a greater number of zooids per internode (14-16).