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, Lee et al. 1997, López-Gappa and Pérez 2019, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Antroporidae, Bryopastoridae, Calloporidae, Cupuladriidae, Ellisinidae, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Pyrisinellidae
Subtaxa: Aluis Amphiblestrella Bryopastor Chaperia Chaperiopsis Patsyella
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 (3), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
Total: 36 collections including 56 occurrences