Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
Synonym: Metrocryptidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bassler 1953, Cheetham 1962, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Kiessling 2004
Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Cycloperiella Fatkullina Junerossia Lepralioides Marcusadorea Metradolium Metrocrypta Pachyegis Schizemiella Stephanotrema Stomachetosella Stomacrustula Tremoschizodina Tremoschizodininae
Type: Stomachetosella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Greenland (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (2)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Panama (1)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama)
• Eocene of United States (8: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
Total: 20 collections including 27 occurrences