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 Pterospermella Pterospermellaceae Pyramimonadales Tasmanites
Distribution:
• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection), Southern Ocean (14)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (2)
• Pliocene of Southern Ocean (20)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Southern Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Azerbaijan (1), South Pacific (2), Southern Ocean (50)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (7), Azerbaijan (3), South Pacific (3)
• Eocene of South Pacific (15)
• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (7), South Pacific (4)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of South Pacific (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (19), Argentina (11), Brazil (1), Chile (2), the Russian Federation (3), South Pacific (7)
• 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), France (1), Türkiye (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), Sweden (1)
• Mesoproterozoic of India (1)
• Statherian of India (1)
Total: 219 collections including 256 occurrences