Diagnosis: Colony moderately to well calcified, arising from a small encrusting base, erect, with narrow, sometimes anastomosing branches. Zooids in whorls, or in frontal, zooidal and abfrontal, non-zooidal series. Frontal shields lepralioid, elongated, with a few prominent marginal areolae only. Primary orifice often sinuate, with a suboral avicularium, other avicularia frontal. Ovicell large and globular, with two distinct and separated calcified layers, or with marginal septular pores.(after Hayward & Thorpe, 1988, Gordon & d'Hondt, 1997, and Bock & Cook, 2001 - the family is impossible to maintain for the genera included).
The family includes the genera:
Isoschizoporella secunda | Macrocamera bragai | Macrocamera erecta (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA) |
Macrocamera inarmata |
Macrocamera moderna | Macrocamera parvisinuata | Macrocamera robusta | Macrocamera watersi |