Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Parent taxon: Microporoidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1958, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003 and Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Sister taxa: Aspidostomatidae, Cianotremella, Coscinopleuridae, Lunulitidae, Onychocellidae
Subtaxa: Andreella Caleschara Calpensia Cupularia Dimorphostylus Floridinella Gargantua Homalostega Micropora Microporina Mollia Monsella Nematoporella Poropeltarion Puncturiella Rimosocella Rosseliana Selenaria Selenariopsis Steraechmella Vibracella
Type: Micropora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), Greenland (2), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (6), United States (3: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (5), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (9)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (6), Brazil (2), Colombia (1), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (5), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Malta (4), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (5), Trinidad and Tobago (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Oman (1), United States (7: Alabama)
• Eocene of India (2), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Florida, Georgia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cenozoic of Australia (3)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Arkansas, Tennessee)
Total: 116 collections including 168 occurrences