Stenolaemata - Tubuliporata - Heteroporidae
Parent taxon: Heteroporidae according to R. S. Bassler 1953
See also Gordon and Taylor 2015, Schmidt 2003 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthopora, Biflabellaria, Borgiola, Canalipora, Cerioporella, Defranciopora, Densipora, Filicava, Globulipora, Heteroporella, Marssoniella, Multicrescis, Neofungella, Neuroporella, Ramia, Reptomulticava, Ripisoecia, Seminodicrescis, Sparsicytis, Spinopora, Tetrocycloecia
Subtaxa: Heteropora magna Heteropora pisiformis Heteropora scholzi Heteropora verrucosa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: California, Oregon collections)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1)
• Miocene of Czechia (3), Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Malta (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of France (31), Germany (3), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic of Chile (1)
• Triassic of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 55 collections including 57 occurrences
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