Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
Parent taxon: Ascophora according to R. S. Bassler 1953
See also Cheetham 1962, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Kiessling 2004
Sister taxa: Acanthostega, Basyaylella, Bifaxariidae, Catenicelloidea, Celleporariidae, Cleidochasmatidae, Conescharellinidae, Crepidacanthidae, Euthyrisellidae, Euthyroididae, Fusicellariidae, Hippoporinidae, Hippothooidea, Hippothoomorpha, Lekythoporidae, Lepraliomorpha, Mucronellidae, Myriozoidae, Nephroporidae, Onchoporidae, Parmulariidae, Petraliidae, Phylactellidae, Phylactelliporidae, Platyglenidae, Prostomariidae, Reteporidae, Sertellidae, Spiroporinidae, Tetraplariidae, Tubucellariidae
Subtaxa: Cigclisula Cycloperiella Diastosula Leiosella Metradolium Metrocrypta Pachyegis Posterula Ragionula Schizemiella Stomachetosella
Type: Stomachetosella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (2 collections), Greenland (3), United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), Panama (2)
• Miocene of India (2), Indonesia (2), Panama (2)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of United States (8: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
Total: 30 collections including 38 occurrences