Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Synonyms: Hippellozoonidae Vigneaux 1949, Hippoporinidae Osburn 1952, Reteporidae Smitt 1868, Sertellidae Jullien 1903
Parent taxon: Celleporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1972, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 1984, Gordon 1993, Gordon 1999, Gordon 2012, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Celleporidae, Colatooeciidae, Hippoporidridae, Pseudostega, Torquatellidae
Subtaxa: Bryorachis Chevron Dentiporella Dictyochasma Fodinella Hippellozoon Hippoporininae Hippopozoon Iodictyum Lifuella Malleatia Metacleidochasma Phidolopora Plesiocleidochasma Psileschara Psilosecos Reteporella Reteporellina Rhynchozoon Rhynchozooninae Schedocleidochasma Schizoretepora Schizoreteporinae Schizotheca Sparsiporina Stephanollona Triphyllozoon Uniretepora
Type: Phidolopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), France (1), Greece (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (5: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Greece (1), Panama (8), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (3), Colombia (4), Czechia (14), Egypt (1), Fiji (5), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Romania (2), South Africa (1), Spain (9)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of India (2), Malta (3), New Zealand (1), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (4), Tonga (2), United States (4: Florida)
• Paleocene of Sweden (1)
• Cenozoic of Australia (5)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
• Permian of Bolivia (2)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1)
Total: 137 collections including 254 occurrences