Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Parent taxon: Celleporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Celleporidae, Colatooeciidae
Subtaxa: Hippoporella Hippopozoon Lifuella Plesiocleidochasma Psilosecos Reteporella Rhynchozoon Schedocleidochasma Schizoretepora Schizotheca Stephanollona
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), France (1), Greece (2), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Greece (1), Panama (11), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (4), Colombia (3), the Czech Republic (14), Egypt (1), Fiji (5), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (5), Morocco (3), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Spain (9)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of India (2), New Zealand (1), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (4), United States (4: Florida)
• Cenozoic of Australia (5)
• Paleocene of Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
• Permian of Bolivia (2)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1)
Total: 136 collections including 255 occurrences