Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Celleporoidea, Schizoporelloidea, Siphonicytaroidea
Subtaxa: Cellariidae
Type: Cellaria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (4 collections), Costa Rica (3), Greece (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), United States (7: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (4), Australia (6), Belgium (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (4), Spain (3), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (13)
• Miocene of Australia (7), the Czech Republic (13), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5), Ukraine (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (11)
• Oligocene of Australia (2), Germany (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (5), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cenozoic of Australia (5)
Total: 129 collections including 248 occurrences