Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
Synonyms: Adeonellidae Busk 1884, Meniscoporidae Canu 1907, Smittistomidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Adeonoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 2012, Grischenko and Gordon 2004, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Cucullipora, Diedroporidae, Goodonia, Inversiulidae
Subtaxa: Adeona Adeonella Adeonellopsis Anarthropora Anarthroporinae Bracebridgia Dimorphocella Dimorphocellinae Kubaninella Laminopora Laminoporinae Meniscopora Ovaticella Poristoma Reptadeonella Schizostomella Smittistoma Teichopora Teichoporinae Triporula Trypocella
Type: Adeonella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (1), Italy (3), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Jamaica (1), Panama (1), Spain (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Czechia (13), Germany (1), Indonesia (6), New Zealand (1), Romania (2), Spain (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Germany (3), Malta (3), New Zealand (1), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (3), Spain (1), Tonga (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cenozoic of Australia (3)
Total: 105 collections including 147 occurrences