Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
Parent taxon: Lepralielloidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Gordon 2012 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Cheilhorneropsidae, Dhondtiscidae, Eoporella, Hincksiporidae, Jaculinidae, Lepraliellidae, Metrarabdotosidae, Romancheinidae, Sclerodomidae, Sfeniellidae, Tessaradomidae, Umbonulidae
Subtaxa: Bryocryptella Bubnoffiella Buchneria Cyclocolposa Cystisella Marguetta Palmiskenea Porella Porellinae Porelloides Reussia Rhamphosmittina Simibryocryptella
Type: Bryocryptella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (4 collections), New Zealand (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (2), Spain (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (6), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), United States (10: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1)
Total: 58 collections including 78 occurrences