Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Synonym: Cupuladriidae Lagaaij 1952
Parent taxon: Membraniporoidea according to K. Zagorsek and D. P. Gordon 2013
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Pouyet 2000, Schmidt 2003, Scolaro 1970, Ulrich and Bassler 1904, Wienrich 1999 and Zágoršek and Kroh 2003
Sister taxon: Electridae
Subtaxa: Acanthodesia Adenifera Biflustra Biselenaria Cellarinidra Cupuladria Desmacystis Discoporella Exostesia Gregarinidra Heliodoma Membranipora Nitscheina Pseudostege Quadricellaria Reussirella Synaptacella Tamanicella Trochopora Vibracellina
Type: Membranipora
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (11: California, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (16), Portugal (1), Spain (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (6)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Belgium (2), Brazil (4), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (49), India (4), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (8), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Ukraine (4), United States (8: Florida, Maryland, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Germany (2), India (1), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), New Zealand (1), Spain (8), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Sweden (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (1), France (2), United States (10: Arizona, Kansas, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 211 collections including 379 occurrences