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 Canda rectangulata Udin, 1964 ( Fig. 9 F-H) Canda rectangulata Udin, 1964: 393 , pl. 1, fig. 3. — Vávra 1979: 599 , pl. 1, figs a, d, g; 1980: 58, pl. 2, figs 5-6. — Schmid 1989: 25 , pl. 6, figs 1-5, 8. — Moissette 1997: 193 , pl. 2, figs 11-12. OCCURRENCE. — Middle Miocene: Austria ( Schmid 1989 ), Hungary ( Moissette et al. 2007 ). Late Miocene: Tunisia ( Moissette 1997 ). DESCRIPTION Colony vinculariiform. Frontal showing rectangular zooids organized in two alternating series with prominent distal and lateral edges.Cryptocyst concave,proximally well-developed and thus resulting in an elongate V-shaped opesia. Dorsal displaying enlarged triangular vibracularia with long setal grooves and large radicular pore. Frontal avicularia and ovicells not observed. REMARKS The closeness with the Recent Canda retiformis Pourtalès has been emphasized since the creation of C. rectangulata . A revision of both fossil and Recent material of the genus Canda is desirable.