Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Synonym: Alderinidae Canu and Bassler 1927
Parent taxon: Calloporoidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Koromyslova and Seltser 2020, Lee et al. 1997, Ostrovsky and Taylor 2004, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Taylor and Martha 2017, Wienrich 1999 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003
Sister taxa: Antroporidae, Bryopastoridae, Chaperiidae, Foveolariidae, Heliodomidae, Hiantoporidae, Pyrisinellidae
Subtaxa: Acanthoporella Acanthoporidra Alderina Allantopora Ammatophora Amphiblestrum Aplousina Bidenkapia Callopora Copidozoum Crassicellepora Crassimarginatella Cymulopora Dionella Distelopora Doryporella Ellisina Flustrellaria Foratella Foveolaria Gilbertopora Hapsidopora Hemiseptella Larnacicus Marginaria Marssonopora Membraniporidra Onychoblestrum Parellisina Periporosella Pithodella Planicellaria Pyriporella Pyriporoides Pyrulella Ramphonotus Reptoporina Retevirgula Solenophragma Stamenocella Tegella Treptopora Tumaiella Tylopora Tyloporella Undistelopora Valdemunitella Wilbertopora
Type: Callopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Greenland (4), Italy (2), New Zealand (2), United States (4: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (10)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (8), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (7), Indonesia (4), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (6)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), New Zealand (1), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), India (6), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), United States (15: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Denmark (1), France (2), Sweden (1), United States (2: Alabama, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (18: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 155 collections including 319 occurrences