Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
Parent taxon: Microporoidea according to A. V. Koromyslova and V. B. Seltser 2020
See also Bassler 1953, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1962 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Aspidostomatidae, Cardabiellidae, Coscinopleuridae, Microporidae, Onychocellidae
Subtaxa: Discoflustrellaria Luganella Lunulites Oligotresium Pavolunulites Volviflustrellaria
Type: Lunulites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Australia (2 collections)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (4)
• Miocene of Brazil (9), France (1), Germany (32), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (6), United States (5: Mississippi)
• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (56: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2), Denmark (26), France (2), Germany (12), the Netherlands (2), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 174 collections including 222 occurrences