Family Cryptoporidae Muir-Wood 1955 (lamp shell)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cryptoporidae
Parent taxon: Dimerelloidea according to C. C. Emig et al. 2013
See also Cooper 1959, Wienrich 1999 and Williams et al. 2002
Sister taxa: Dimerellidae, Halorellidae, Peregrinellidae
Subtaxa: Aulites Cryptopora Cryptoporella
Type: Cryptopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Fiji (2 collections)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Cuba (3), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (9), Italy (7), Poland (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Cuba (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (13)
• Cretaceous of Poland (10)
Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence