Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Electridae
Synonym: Electrinidae d'Orbigny 1851
Parent taxon: Membraniporoidea according to C. A. Taboada et al. 2024
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brezina et al. 2021, Canu and Bassler 1920, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Gordon 2012, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Pouyet 2000 and Viera et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Christinella, Corynostylidae, Membraniporidae, Sinoflustridae, Wawaliidae
Subtaxa: Arbocuspis Arbopercula Aspidelectra Bathypora Bullaconopeum Charixa Conopeum Danocella Einhornia Electra Eokotosokum Gontarella Haplostoechios Harpecia Herpetopora Lapidosella Mychoplectra Osburnea Pyripora Pyriporopsis Rhammatopora Spinicharixa Villicharixa
Type: Electra
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (3 collections), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), United States (13: California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of India (2), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), Spain (2), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Sweden (1), United States (10: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Japan (7), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (12: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 97 collections including 116 occurrences