Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Parent taxon: Smittinoidea according to B. Berning 2006
See also Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Bitectiporidae, Watersiporidae
Subtaxa: Hemismittoidea Parasmittina Plagiosmittia Pleurocodonellina Prenantia Schismoporella Smittina Smittoidea
Type: Smittina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Costa Rica (4), Greece (1), Greenland (2), New Zealand (2), United States (8: California, Florida, New York, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (7)
• Miocene of Australia (2), the Czech Republic (10), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (2), Panama (1), Romania (2), Spain (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (3), United States (15: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
Total: 113 collections including 174 occurrences