Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
Parent taxon: Tubuliporina according to E. Di Martino and P. D. Taylor 2013
See also Bassler 1953, Hara and Taylor 2009, Taylor and Wilson 1999 and ZatoĊ and Taylor 2010
Sister taxa: Cinctiporidae, Diaperoeciidae, Diastoporidae, Discocytis, Eleidae, Entalophoridae, Filisparsidae, Frondiporidae, Hastingsiidae, Mecynoeciidae, Oncousoeciidae, Plagioeciidae, Semiceidae, Serietubigera, Stomatoporidae, Telopora, Terviidae, Tubuliporidae
Subtaxa: Atractosoecia Idmonea Multisparsa Patulopora Reptoclausa Reptomultisparsa
Type: Multisparsa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (7: California collections)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Brazil (1), Egypt (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Oman (1), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cenozoic of Australia (4)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of France (3), Germany (2), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of France (3), Poland (3), United States (5: Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Iran (2), Slovakia (1)
Total: 55 collections including 74 occurrences