Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Parent taxon: Lepralielloidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Bryocryptellidae, Eoporella, Jaculinidae, Lepraliellidae
Subtaxa: Balantiostoma Escharella Escharoides Exochella Hemicyclopora Hippolyrula Hippopleurifera Ochetosella Perigastrella Romancheina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Greenland (4), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (1), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Colombia (4), the Czech Republic (14), Egypt (1), France (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (2), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (15: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (4: Arkansas, California, Oklahoma)
Total: 113 collections including 241 occurrences