Alternative spelling: Prasinophyceae
Parent taxon: Chloroplastida according to S. M. Adl et al. 2005
See also Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Charophyta, Chlorodendrales, Chlorophyta, Mesostigma
Subtaxa: Crassosphaera Duvernaysphaera Pterospermellaceae Pyramimonadales Tasmanites
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (4 collections), Azerbaijan (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (7), Azerbaijan (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Brazil (1), Chile (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Israel (1), Norway (7)
• Rotliegendes of Norway (4)
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Indiana)
• Devonian of Canada (3: Ontario), Turkey (2), United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Québec)
• Cambrian of Finland (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Amgan of the Russian Federation (1)
• Tonian of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Mesoproterozoic of India (1)
• Statherian of India (1)
Total: 56 collections including 66 occurrences