Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Cheetham 1972, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gipikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003 and Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Sister taxa: Acoraniidae, Actisecidae, Bryobaculidae, Buffonellodidae, Calwelliidae, Cheiloporinidae, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Duvergieriidae, Echinovadomidae, Eminooeciidae, Escharinidae, Gigantoporidae, Hippaliosinidae, Hippopodinidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Margarettidae, Mawatariidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Pacificincolidae, Petraliellidae, Petraliidae, Phoceanidae, Phorioppniidae, Porinidae, Robertsonidridae, Schizoporellopsis, Stomachetosellidae, Tetraplariidae, Teuchoporidae, Tshokrakopora, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Enoplostomella Gemellipora Gemelliporidra Hippoporae Hipposera Microporellae Schizobrachiella Schizolepralia Schizoporella Schizoporellae Stylopoma
Type: Schizoporella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Costa Rica (3), Greece (1), Greenland (3), Italy (3), Mexico (2), United States (11: Florida, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (7), Spain (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (14)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (3), Austria (1), Colombia (2), Czechia (12), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Poland (2), Romania (1), Spain (6), Ukraine (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), United States (11: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Tonga (1), United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)
Total: 133 collections including 190 occurrences