Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Lithothamniacae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Braga et al. 2009, Hrabovsky et al. 2016, Kishore et al. 2015, Kishore et al. 2017, Kundal 2011, Kundal et al. 2016, Mirsa et al. 2006, Misra et al. 2006, Rasser and Piller 1999, Sarkar 2017, Sarkar and Rao 2018, Schneider and Wynne 2007, Stockar 2000 and Tripalo 2017
Sister taxon: Lithothamnion
Subtaxa: Phymatolithon calcareum
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of French Polynesia (1 collection), India (2), Italy (2)
• Pliocene of India (7), Portugal (1), Spain (4)
• Miocene of Cyprus (2), France (6), India (3), Indian Ocean (1), Italy (9), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (4)
• Oligocene of Italy (2), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Austria (12), India (2), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Italy (2)
Total: 67 collections including 70 occurrences
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