Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Synonyms: Buchneriidae Harmer 1957, Celleporariidae Harmer 1957, Holoporellidae Levinsen 1909, Kleidionellidae Vigneaux 1949
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 2012, Gordon et al. 1994, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Bryocryptellidae, Cheilhorneropsidae, Dhondtiscidae, Eoporella, Hincksiporidae, Jaculinidae, Metrarabdotosidae, Romancheinidae, Sclerodomidae, Sfeniellidae, Tessaradomidae, Umbonulidae
Subtaxa: Acanthophragma Celleporaria Ceratopora Cryptostomella Dennisia Drepanophora Frurionella Kladapheles Kleidionella Leiosellina Lepraliella Multescharellina Pseudobeisselina Schizemiellopsis Sinuporaria Sphaeropora
Type: Lepraliella
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), Czechia (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 Malta (2), United States (8: 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 of Denmark (1), France (1), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (2), United States (2: Arkansas, Tennessee)
• Devonian of United States (9: New York)
• Silurian of United States (1: New York)
Total: 136 collections including 166 occurrences