Abstract
The cheilostome bryozoan family Urceoliporidae has not previously been discovered in the fossil record, hitherto comprising only three Recent species in two genera from Australia and New Zealand. Urceolipora miocenica n. sp. is described from the Pakaurangi Formation, Waitemata Group, from Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand. Thus, both families of the superfamily Urceoliporoidea (Urceoliporidae and Prostomariidae) are now known from the Early Miocene. The new species is made the type of a new subgenus, Cureolipora, chiefly distinguished from Urceolipora sensu stricto by the lack of a longitudinal ridge dividing the frontal shield into two sectors, and also by the lack of an orificial sinus and lateral‐oral homs. More than 215 species of Bryozoa are now known to occur in the New Zealand Miocene, more than half of which are undescribed.
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