Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to B. Berning 2006
See also Bassler 1953, 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: Actisecidae, Cheiloporinidae, Eminooeciidae, Gigantoporidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Lanceoporidae, Margarettidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Petraliellidae, Porinidae, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Characodoma Chiastosella Cribella Dakaria Enoplostomella Exochellinae Gemellipora Gemelliporidra Hippoporae Microporellae Multiporina Phonicosia Schizobrachiella Schizoporella Schizoporellae Schizoporellopsis Sphenella Stellatopora Stephanotrema Stylopoma Therenia
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 (4), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (4), Panama (8), Portugal (1), Spain (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (14)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (3), Austria (1), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (12), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Poland (2), Romania (1), Spain (6), Ukraine (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (7)
• Oligocene of Australia (5), New Zealand (1), United States (11: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (5), Tonga (2), United States (6: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina)
Total: 151 collections including 246 occurrences