Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Escharinidae
Synonyms: Hippozeugosellidae Vigneaux 1949, Schizobathysellidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bock 2006 and Di Martino and Taylor 2015
Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Bactridium Bryopesanser Chiastosella Dightonia Escharina Herentia Mastigophorinae Phaeostachys Schizobathysella Schizocoryne Therenia
Type: Escharina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Egypt (2), Greece (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (4), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Czechia (5), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Spain (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Malta (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of India (3), New Zealand (4), Tonga (1), United States (11: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)
Total: 74 collections including 118 occurrences