Monticuliporidae

Monticuliporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Trepostomata, characterized by branching, encrusting, or massive colonies with regularly spaced bumps on their surfaces. It is one of the earliest bryozoan families to arise, known from the early Ordovician period, but disappears from the fossil record after the late Silurian period. Monticuliporidae had a widespread geographical range and many genera had cosmopolitan distribution.^[1]

Monticuliporidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Bryozoa
Class:	Stenolaemata
Order:	†Trepostomida
Suborder:	†Amplexoporina
Family:	†Monticuliporidae

Genera

• Homotrypa
• Mesotrypa
• Monticulipora
• Prasopora