Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Parent taxon: Lepralielloidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Bryocryptellidae, Eoporella, Jaculinidae, Romancheinidae
Subtaxa: Buchneria Celleporaria Chataimulosia Cryptostomella Frurionella Kleidionella Multescharellina Sphaeropora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), United States (8: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (3), Australia (2), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (6), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), the Czech Republic (4), Egypt (1), France (7), Germany (4), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Malta (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Spain (6), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (26: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Arkansas, Tennessee)
Total: 122 collections including 145 occurrences