Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Porinidae
Invalid subtaxa: Acroporidae Canu 1913 [replaced name], Haswellinidae Gordon and Ballentine 1977
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Gordon 2012, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997 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, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Cyphonella Gastropella Gastropellinae Haswelliporina Mosaicoporina Porina Semihaswellia Spiroporinidae Tremotoichos
Type: Porina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), New Zealand (3)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (2), Italy (1), New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (8)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), India (1), United States (3: Alabama)
• Eocene of India (1), New Zealand (4), Tonga (2), United States (1: Georgia)
• Cenozoic of Australia (2)
• Paleocene of Denmark (7), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 64 collections including 75 occurrences