Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Hippopodinidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Cheetham 1962 and Di Martino and Taylor 2015
Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Archoporella Hippomenella Hippopodina Saevitella Thornelya Trilochites
Type: Hippopodina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), New Zealand (3), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (4), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Colombia (2), Indonesia (5), New Zealand (3), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), India (2), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (2), United States (4: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
Total: 49 collections including 66 occurrences