Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Alternative combinations: Ethelia alba, Pseudolithothamnium alba, Pseudolithothamnium album
Belongs to Polystrata according to P.K. Misra et al. 2001
See also Bassi 1998, Jauhri et al. 2006, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Rasser 1994
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Iran (1 collection), Malta (8), Slovenia (2), Spain (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (2), India (9), Italy (4), Romania (13)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Costa Rica (1), Poland (1), Turkey (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (6), China (2), Costa Rica (6), Croatia (1), France (5), Iran (2), Italy (2), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (27), Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Croatia (1), Egypt (1), France (10), Germany (7), Greece (4), India (2), Italy (3), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Romania (5), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (3), Turkey (1), United States (1: Arizona)
• Jurassic of India (1)
Total: 156 collections each including a single occurrence
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