Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cupuladriidae
Parent taxon: Calloporoidea according to E. HaĚŠkansson et al. 2023
See also Bassler 1953, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon 2012, Scolaro 1970 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Antroporidae, Bryopastoridae, Calloporidae, Chaperiidae, Doryporellidae, Ellisinidae, Filiflustrina, Fissuricella, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Parastichopora, Pseudolunularia, Pyrisinellidae, Stichopora, Tendridae
Subtaxa: Biselenaria Cupuladria Discoporella Reussirella Vibracellina
Type: Cupuladria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Panama (1), United States (8: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (16)
• Miocene of Belgium (2), Brazil (6), Germany (49), India (4), Indonesia (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (8), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of India (1)
• Eocene of Spain (8), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Texas)
Total: 126 collections including 240 occurrences