Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
Parent taxon: Arachnopusioidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon et al. 1994, Gordon and Taylor 1999, Gordon and Taylor 2015, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxon: Exechonellidae
Subtaxa: Anexechona Arachnopusia Hippexechonella Moyanopora Poricella Quasitrilaminopora Tremogasterina Trichinopolia
Type: Arachnopusia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), New Zealand (3), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (3), Panama (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (7)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (3), Colombia (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (3), Romania (1), Spain (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), United States (2: Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 55 collections including 69 occurrences