Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Synonyms: Alderinidae Canu and Bassler 1927, Allantoporidae Vigneaux 1949, Escharinellidae d'Orbigny 1852, Flustrellidae d'Orbigny 1852, Flustrinidae d'Orbigny 1852, Tegellidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Calloporoidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon 2012, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Koromyslova and Seltser 2020, Lee et al. 1997, Ostrovsky and Taylor 2004, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Taylor and Martha 2017, Wienrich 1999 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003
Sister taxa: Antroporidae, Bryopastoridae, Chaperiidae, Cupuladriidae, Doryporellidae, Ellisinidae, Filiflustrina, Fissuricella, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Parastichopora, Pseudolunularia, Pyrisinellidae, Stichopora, Tendridae
Subtaxa: Acanthoporella Acanthoporidra Adenifera Alderina Allantocallopora Allantopora Ammatophora Amphiblestrum Aplousina Aviculamphiblestrum Barrosia Berthelsenia Biaviculigera Bidenkapia Bonellina Bryocalyx Callopora Cauloramphus Clavodesia Concertina Copidozoum Corbulella Cranosina Crassicellepora Crassimarginatella Crepis Cymulopora Dactylostega Daisyella Dermatopora Dionella Distelopora Ellisinidrinae Ellisininae Flustrellaradae Flustrellaria Foratella Gilbertopora Glenelgia Hapsidopora Hemiseptella Kristerina Kunradocella Lamourouxia Leptinatella Marginaria Marssonopora Membraniporidra Mystriopora Ogivalina Ogivalininae Onychoblestrum Ornatella Pachybaktropora Paraflustrella Paramphiblestrum Parellisina Periporosella Pithodella Planicellaria Pseudoallantopora Punctocellaria Pyriflustrina Pyriporella Pyriporoides Ramphonotus Reptoflustrella Reptoporina Retevirgula Semiflustrella Semiflustrina Septentriopora Solenophragma Stamenocella Tegella Treptopora Tumaiella Tylopora Tyloporella Unidistelopora Valdemunitella Wilbertopora Xylochotridens
Type: Callopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Greenland (4), Italy (2), New Zealand (2), United States (5: California, Florida, Maryland)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (8)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (1), Colombia (1), Czechia (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (6), Indonesia (4), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), New Zealand (1), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), India (6), Namibia (1), New Zealand (4), United States (14: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), France (2), Sweden (1), United States (2: Alabama, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Australia (6), Austria (1), Czechia (3), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (18: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 156 collections including 310 occurrences