Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Cellarioidea, Schizoporelloidea, Siphonicytaroidea
Subtaxa: Celleporidae Colatooeciidae Phidoloporidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), France (1), Greece (2), Greenland (2), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (14), Panama (1), United States (10: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (4), Greece (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (12), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (10)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (4), Colombia (3), the Czech Republic (14), Egypt (2), Fiji (5), France (3), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (7), Morocco (3), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), Poland (3), Portugal (2), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Spain (10)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (6)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), India (2), New Zealand (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (5), United States (10: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)
• Cenozoic of Australia (5)
• Paleocene of Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
• Permian of Bolivia (2)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1)
Total: 194 collections including 460 occurrences