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 Anguisia verrucosa Jullien, 1882 ( Fig. 7A, B ) Anguisia verrucosa Jullien, 1882: 497 , pl. 13, figs 1-2. — Harmelin 1977: 1058 , figs 1-2; pl. I, figs 1, 3. — Harmelin 1979b: 414 , pl. 2, fig. 3. — Harmelin & d’Hondt 1982: 7, pl. I, figs 3-4. — Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995: 783 , pl. 2, figs 1-2. FIG. 7. — A , B , Anguisia verrucosa Jullien, 1882 ; A , bifurcating branch, FAN36: AMPG(IV) 3471; B , encrusting base (left) and erect peristome of the encrusting proximal zooid of a running branch (right), FAN35: AMPG(IV) 3470; C , D , Exidmonea atlantica (Forbes in Johnston, 1847 ); C , fragment of a branch, frontal view (with a gonozooid on the left upper part), POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2853a; D , fragment of a branch, dorsal view, POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2853b; E -G , Ybselosoecia typica ( Manzoni, 1878 ); E , fragment of a branch (with a large gonozooid), frontal view, POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2881a; F , detail of the ooeciostome of another gonozooid, POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2881b; G , fragment of a branch, dorsal view, POTB13: AMPG(IV) 2881c. Scale bars: A, D, 200 µm; B, G, 100 µm; C-E, 500 µm. Anguisia jullieni Neviani, 1895: 129 , pl. 6, figs 39-40. OCCURRENCE. — Pleistocene: Sicily , Calabria ( Rosso 2005 ), Rhodes ( Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995 ). Recent: Eastern Atlantic ( 200- 2018 m ), Mediterranean ( 500-1525 m ). DESCRIPTION Erect, tubular fragile colony, arising from an encrusting uniserial basis. Zooids forming slender bifurcating cylindrical branches, ornamented by thin growth lines and scattered slightly prominent verrucae (pseudopores). REMARKS The gonozooid, characteristic of the genus, consisting of a simple elongated chamber with a terminal tubular ooeciostome (J.-G. Harmelin, personal communication), was not observed. The encrusting basis is visible in some of the studied specimens ( Fig. 6B ). The species created by Neviani (1895) from the Pliocene/Pleistocene of northern Italy , A. jullieni most probably corresponds to the encrusting basis of A. verrucosa . However, the homonymous A. jullieni described byOstrovsky (1998) from the present-day Antarctic is a different species. Peristome diameter and length are smaller in A. verrucosa and the prominent verrucae associated with the pseudopores are absent in A. jullieni .