Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Synonym: Fenestrulinidae Jullien 1888
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, 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: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellidae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Adelascopora Calloporina Cribriporella Diporula Fenestrulina Flustramorpha Microporella Tenthrenulina
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 (8: California, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (5: California)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Czechia (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: 73 collections including 117 occurrences