Parent taxon: Cheilostomata according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Adeonellidae, Aegyptopora, Anasca, Ascophorina, Atacama, Batoporidae, Biavicularium, Bicornifera, Bifissurinella, Boreasina, Brydonella, Buffonella, Buffonellodidae, Calescharidae, Calvina, Catenicellidae, Chasmazoon, Cheilohorneropsis, Chlidoniidae, Chlidoniopsidae, Christinella, Cillia, Craspedoporina, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Didymosellidae, Diplobeisselina, Diplorula, Discovibracella, Ditaxiporina, Dysnoetocella, Eohippotha, Eoscrupocellaria, Escharellidae, Escharinidae, Exochellidae, Fissuricella, Flustrella, Flustrina, Gemelliporellidae, Geminella, Grammothoa, Haplopomella, Helix, Hemeschara, Hincksiporidae, Hippopodinidae, Hippoporidridae, Hippothoidae, Hoeverella, Hopora, Hormerella, Kronothoa, Kylonisa, Lacrimula, Latereschara, Laterotecatia, Lepraliidae, Malacostegina, Mamilloporidae, Marquetta, Metrarabdotosidae, Monticellaria, Mosathoa, Neliella, Neocheilostomina, Nudonychocella, Obliquostoma, Ochetosellina, Onychocellaria, Orbituliporidae, Paravinella, Parobeisselina, Pasytheidae, Pavolunuites, Petaloconchus, Pnictoporopsis, Poricellariidae, Porismittina, Porometra, Pseudobeisselma, Pseudolunulites, Quadricellariidae, Quadriscutella, Radulopora, Revssirella, Rhabdotometra, Savignyellidae, Schizemiellopsis, Schizotrema, Sclerodomidae, Scorioporidae, Setosellidae, Skylonia, Solenonychocella, Sphaerulobryozoon, Staurosteginopora, Stenopsis, Stichtostega, Sylonika, Taeniocellana, Taenioporella, Tessaradomidae, Teuchoporidae, Thalamoporellidae, Thecatia, Tornipora, Tremocoscinopleura, Tricornicella, Tshokrakopora, Tubescharina, Umbonulidae, Uniavicularia, Vinculariidae, Virgocella, Voorthuyseniella, Wawalia, Xaveropora
Subtaxa: Membraniporoidea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Greenland (3), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), United States (14: California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (8)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Czechia (6), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (4), India (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (4), United States (7: California, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Germany (2), New Zealand (1), United States (5: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), India (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (12: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Denmark (2), Sweden (1), United States (12: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), France (3), Japan (7), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (21: Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 199 collections including 275 occurrences