Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Synonyms: Celleporinidae Harmer 1957, Galeopsidae Jullien and Calvet 1903, Lageniporidae Jullien 1883, Osthimosidae Jullien 1888, Schismoporidae Vigneaux 1949, Tegminulidae Vigneaux 1949
Parent taxon: Celleporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 2012, Lee et al. 1997, Schmidt 2003, Ulrich and Bassler 1904 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Colatooeciidae, Hippoporidridae, Phidoloporidae, Pseudostega, Torquatellidae
Subtaxa: Buffonellaria Buskea Calvipelta Cellepora Celleporina Chasmatooecium Chasmazoon Favosthimosia Galeopsis Lagenipora Monocerina Omalosecosa Orthoporidroides Osthimosia Palmicellaria Pourtalesella Predanophora Pseudocelleporina Richbunea Schismoporinae Sinuporina Spigaleos Tegminula Turbicellepora
Type: Cellepora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Greece (2), Greenland (2), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (14), United States (6: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (7)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Czechia (14), Egypt (1), Fiji (1), France (2), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (4), Indonesia (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (3), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), India (2), Malta (2), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (5), United States (5: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Sweden (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
Total: 128 collections including 200 occurrences