Stenolaemata - Tubuliporata - Diastoporidae
Parent taxon: Tubuliporina according to K. Zágoršek and A. Kroh 2003
See also Bassler 1911, Bassler 1953, Brown 1956 and Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
Sister taxa: Cinctiporidae, Diaperoeciidae, Discocytis, Eleidae, Entalophoridae, Filisparsidae, Frondiporidae, Hastingsiidae, Mecynoeciidae, Multisparsidae, Oncousoeciidae, Plagioeciidae, Semiceidae, Serietubigera, Stomatoporidae, Telopora, Terviidae, Tubuliporidae
Subtaxa: Atelesopora Berenicea Bidiastopora Cellulipora Clinopora Desmeplagioecia Diastopora Diastoporina Discosparsa Elaphopora Fascipora Flabellotrypa Osburnostylus Retelea Reticulipora Rhipidopora Rosacilla Sagenella Semifascipora Siphoniotyphlus Spiropora Tubigerina
Type: Diastopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Antarctica (3 collections), Australia (1)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama)
• Eocene of India (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), Madagascar (4)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Austria (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (30), Germany (4), Japan (2), Madagascar (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Ethiopia (2), France (5), Germany (7), India (5), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Triassic of Iran (2), Italy (1)
• Silurian of Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of United States (13: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
Total: 131 collections including 150 occurrences