†Porolithon (red algae)
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Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Metagoniolithoideae according to M. Humblet et al. 2019
See also Kundal and Dharashivkar 2005, Misra et al. 2016 and Sarkar 2017
Sister taxa: Harveylithon, Metagoniolithon
Subtaxa: Porolithon craspedium
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections), Barbados (3), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (2), French Polynesia (2), Guam (1), India (5), Maldives (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Papua New Guinea (2), the Seychelles (1), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Miocene of Poland (2)
Total: 35 collections including 39 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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