Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Parent taxon: Microporoidea according to A. V. Koromyslova and V. B. Seltser 2020
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Taylor and Martha 2017 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003
Sister taxa: Aspidostomatidae, Cianotremella, Coscinopleuridae, Lunulitidae, Microporidae
Subtaxa: Aechmella Cheethamia Chondriovelum Collura Distefanella Ehrhardina Euritina Floridina Hoplitaechmella Hoplocheilina Inversaria Ogiva Ogivalia Onychocella Reptolunulites Rhagasostoma Rhebasia Semieschara Smittipora Thyracella
Type: Onychocella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (1), Italy (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Pliocene of Panama (2), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (12)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (7), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Morocco (3), Panama (1), Romania (1), Spain (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)
• Oligocene of United States (3: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (12: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (3), Sweden (1), United States (3: Alabama, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Belarus (1), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (6), Germany (10), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (4), Turkmenistan (4), the United Kingdom (19), United States (4: Arkansas, California, Texas), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 157 collections including 244 occurrences