Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to B. Berning 2006
See also Brown 1952, Brown 1958, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Pouyet 2000, Ulrich and Bassler 1904 and Zagorsek et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Actisecidae, Cheiloporinidae, Eminooeciidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Lanceoporidae, Margarettidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Schizoporellidae, Stomachetosellidae, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Calloporina Diporula Fenestrulina Microporella
Type: Microporella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), United States (4: Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), the Czech Republic (6), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (1), Spain (8)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Tennessee)
Total: 64 collections including 105 occurrences