Porolithon (red algae)

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

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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

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