Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Petraliellidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Mobunula Mucropetraliella Orbiculipora Petraliella Poripetraliella Riscodopa Sinupetraliella Utinga
Type: Petraliella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Panama (1)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (3), Panama (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (2), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
Total: 17 collections including 21 occurrences