Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Parent taxon: Celleporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Lee et al. 1997, Schmidt 2003, Ulrich and Bassler 1904 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Colatooeciidae, Phidoloporidae
Subtaxa: Acanthionella Aulopocella Buffonellaria Buskea Cellepora Celleporina Costazia Dentiporella Harmerella Lagenipora Monocerina Omalosecosa Osthimosia Palmicellaria Palmiscenea Predanophora Tegminula Turbicellepora
Type: Cellepora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (2), Greenland (2), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (14), United States (5: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (7)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), the Czech Republic (14), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (2), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (3), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), India (2), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (5), United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
Total: 127 collections including 200 occurrences