Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Porinidae
Synonym: Acroporidae Canu 1913 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Schizoporelloidea according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Bassler 1953, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007, Lee et al. 1997 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Actisecidae, Cheiloporinidae, Eminooeciidae, Gigantoporidae, Illusiopora, Lacernidae, Lanceoporidae, Margarettidae, Microporellidae, Myriaporidae, Ostrovskia, Petraliellidae, Schizoporellidae, Vicidae
Subtaxa: Beisselinopsis Cyphonella Gastropella Porina Rotiporina
Type: Porina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Antarctica (2 collections), Australia (3)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), India (2), Italy (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (8)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of New Zealand (4)
• Paleocene of Denmark (7), Sweden (1)
• Cenozoic of Australia (2)
• Cretaceous of France (1)
Total: 49 collections including 54 occurrences