Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
Synonym: Macroporidae Uttley 1949
Parent taxon: Microporoidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Cardabiellidae, Coscinopleuridae, Lunulitidae, Microporidae, Onychocellidae
Subtaxa: Aspidostoma Crateropora Eomacropora Macropora Melychocella Odontionella Semiescharinella
Type: Aspidostoma
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (4)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (10)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (6)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (5)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (1), Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Australia (6)
Total: 45 collections including 94 occurrences