Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
Synonym: Inversiulidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Adeonoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Grischenko and Gordon 2004, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxon: Diedroporidae
Subtaxa: Adeona Adeonellopsis Anarthropora Bracebridgia Calvetina Cyclostomella Dimorphocella Duvergiera Inversiula Kubaninella Laminopora Meniscopora Reptadeonella Schizostomella Schizotremopora Smittistoma Teichopora Trigonopora
Type: Adeona
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 149 occurrences