Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Parent taxon: Membraniporoidea according to K. Zagorsek and D. P. Gordon 2013
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Ulrich and Bassler 1904, Wienrich 1999 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003
Sister taxon: Electridae
Subtaxa: Acanthodesia Adenifera Biflustra Cellarinidra Desmacystis Exostesia Gregarinidra Heliodoma Membranipora Nitscheina Pseudostege Quadricellaria Synaptacella Tamanicella Trochopora
Type: Membranipora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (1), United States (8: California, Maryland, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Jamaica (1), Panama (6), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)
• Miocene of Australia (2), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (4), India (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (4), United States (5: Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Germany (2), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), New Zealand (1), United States (8: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), France (2), United States (10: Arizona, Kansas, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 113 collections including 150 occurrences