Parent taxon: Caryophylliina according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Alpinophylliidae, Caryophylliicae, Caryophyllioidea, Flabelloidea, Parasmiliidae, Protoheterastraeidae, Protoheterstraeidae, Reimaniphyllioidea
Subtaxa: Flabellidae Guyniidae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Costa Rica (2), Greece (9), Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Japan (8), Panama (1), South Atlantic (15), United States (1: Florida), Vanuatu (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (8), Italy (4), Japan (4), Panama (3), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Indonesia (4)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Australia (5), Austria (6), Belgium (1), Brazil (7), Chile (3), Czechia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (2), France (10), Germany (41), Grenada (5), Hungary (1), Indonesia (6), Italy (6), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (4), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (21), Poland (4), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (1), Taiwan (1), United States (4: Florida, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (5), France (3), Germany (2), Hungary (15), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (3), United States (7: Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (4), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (5), Pakistan (1), Saint Barthélemy (1), Slovenia (1), Tonga (1), United States (85: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (48), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (3), France (1), Greenland (6), Mexico (2), Turkmenistan (1), United States (81: Alabama, California, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), China (1), Czechia (2), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Libya (1), Madagascar (5), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Serbia (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: Alabama, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 564 collections including 743 occurrences