Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Electridae
Synonym: Electrinidae d'Orbigny 1851
Parent taxon: Membraniporoidea according to S. S. Brezina et al. 2021
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Canu and Bassler 1920, Di Martino and Taylor 2013, Gordon and Taylor 2015 and Pouyet 2000
Sister taxon: Membraniporidae
Subtaxa: Aspidelectra Charixa Conopeum Craspedopora Electra Haplostoechios Herpetopora Heterooecium Mystriopora Pyripora Spinicharixa Taphrostoma Tendra Tretosina
Type: Electra
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (3 collections), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), United States (13: California, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of India (2), Morocco (1), Spain (2), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (3)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (2: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Sweden (1), United States (10: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Texas)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Japan (7), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (12: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 102 collections including 123 occurrences