Otionellina squamosa is found in the Pleistocene of New Zealand, and is common in the Recent of New Zealand and Australia.
Original description: Selenaria squamosa Tenison-Woods, 1880.
Locality: CastleCliff, New Zealand
Neotype: NZGS BZ30
Reference: Cook, P.L. & Chimonides, P. J. 1984. Recent & fossil Lunulitidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) 1. The genus Otionella from New Zealand. Journal of natural history 18: 227-254.
Bock, P.E. & Cook, P.L., 1998. Otionellidae, a new family including five genera of free-living lunulitiform Bryozoa (Cheilostomatida). Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 50: 195-211.