Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Hapalidiales according to M. Humblet et al. 2019
See also Chaurpagar et al. 2012, Hrabovsky et al. 2016, Kishore et al. 2017, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Kundal et al. 2016, Misra et al. 2011, Mude and Kundal 2012, Roozpeykar et al. 2019, Sarkar and Rao 2018, Schneider and Wynne 2007, Tripalo 2017 and Vannucci et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Lithothamniacae, Mesophyllaceae
Subtaxa: Austrolithoideae Choreonematoideae Melobesioideae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), India (4), New Caledonia (1)
• Pliocene of India (8)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (1), China (3), Egypt (21), Greece (9), Guam (9), India (7), Indian Ocean (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (9), Morocco (1), Poland (3), South Pacific (1), Spain (2), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of India (3), Italy (5), Spain (27)
• Eocene of Austria (11), Costa Rica (1), Greece (1), Hungary (2), India (19), Maldives (10)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Costa Rica (1), India (30)
• Paleocene of China (1), Costa Rica (12), India (7)
• Cretaceous of India (2)
Total: 222 collections including 230 occurrences