Polycystinea - Spumellaria - Gomberellidae
Parent taxon: Sponguracea according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Cyphantellidae, Litheliidae, Oertlispongidae, Phaseliformidae
Subtaxa: Bernoullius Gomberellus Karnospongella Tamonella
Type: Gomberellus
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Italy (44 collections)
• Jurassic of Albania (1), Armenia (1), Canada (5: British Columbia), Germany (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (15), Japan (6), Oman (3), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (2), Türkiye (1), United States (8: California)
• Triassic of China (1), Croatia (2), Cyprus (2), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Slovenia (6), Türkiye (22)
• Permian of China (4)
Total: 140 collections including 203 occurrences