Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Grischenko and Gordon 2004 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Ascophorina, Cellarioidea, Celleporoidea, Schizoporelloidea, Siphonicytaroidea
Subtaxa: Adeonidae Diedroporidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Italy (3), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (1), the Czech Republic (13), Germany (1), Indonesia (6), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (2), Spain (6)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (10)
• Oligocene of Germany (3), New Zealand (1), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (7: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas)
• Cenozoic of Australia (3)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 108 collections including 150 occurrences