Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
Parent taxon: Lepralielloidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Bock 2006 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Eoporella, Jaculinidae, Lepraliellidae, Romancheinidae
Subtaxa: Cyclocolposa Cystisella Marguetta Porella Porelloides Reussia Rhamphosmittina Rhamphostomella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (4 collections), New Zealand (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (2), Spain (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)
Total: 56 collections including 79 occurrences