Parent taxon: Carophylliina according to S. D. Cairns 1997
Sister taxa: Alpinophylliidae, Caryophylliicae, Flabellicae, Parasmiliidae, Protoheterastraeidae, Protoheterstraeidae, Reimaniphyllioidea
Subtaxa: Turbinoliidae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (13 collections), Taiwan (1), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), France (3), Japan (2), Taiwan (2)
• Miocene of Australia (10), Belgium (1), Brazil (2), Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (2), France (8), Germany (13), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (2), Poland (4), Slovakia (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (2), France (2), Germany (4), Greenland (1), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Spain (1), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Austria (1), Belgium (12), Colombia (1), Cote D'Ivoire (4), Croatia (2), France (10), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Nigeria (3), Spain (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (17), United States (68: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Belgium (1), Greenland (1), Iran (2), Nigeria (1), United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Iran (2), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (7), Ukraine (3), United States (2: North Dakota, Texas)
Total: 257 collections including 354 occurrences