Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Chaperiidae
Parent taxon: Calloporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1972, Gordon 2012, Lee et al. 1997, López-Gappa and Pérez 2019, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Antroporidae, Bryopastoridae, Calloporidae, Cupuladriidae, Doryporellidae, Ellisinidae, Filiflustrina, Fissuricella, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Parastichopora, Pseudolunularia, Pyrisinellidae, Stichopora, Tendridae
Subtaxa: Aluis Amphiblestrella Bryochaperia Catenariopsis Chaperia Chaperiopsis Clipeochaperia Exallozoon Exostesia Icelozoon Larnacicus Notocoryne Patsyella Pyrichaperia
Type: Chaperia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), New Zealand (5)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (4), Portugal (1), Spain (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), Spain (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (2)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (4), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
Total: 37 collections including 56 occurrences