Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to B. Berning 2006
See also Bassler 1953, 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, Gigantoporidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Lanceoporidae, Margarettidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Petraliellidae, Porinidae, Schizoporellidae, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Calloporina Diporula Fenestrulina Microporella Stephanopora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greece (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (4), United States (8: California, 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)
Total: 67 collections including 111 occurrences