Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Synonyms: Phylactellidae Canu and Bassler 1917, Schismoporellineae Gregory 1893, Smittidae Jullien 1888
Parent taxon: Smittinoidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Bitectiporidae, Lanceoporidae, Tubescharina, Watersiporidae
Subtaxa: Aspericreta Dakariella Dengordonia Dittomesia Hemismittoidea Hippophylactella Houzeauina Parasmittina Pemmatoporella Phylactella Phylactellina Plagiosmittia Platychelyna Pleurocodonellina Porismittina Prenantia Pseudoflustra Raymondcia Rimulostoma Schismoporella Smittina Smittinella Smittoidea Thrypticocirrus Tracheloptyx
Type: Smittina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Costa Rica (4), Greece (1), Greenland (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), United States (8: California, Florida, New York, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (2), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (12)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Czechia (10), Egypt (1), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), Romania (2), Spain (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Germany (1), Malta (3), New Zealand (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (3), United States (15: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Cenozoic of Australia (1)
Total: 133 collections including 214 occurrences