Parent taxon: Coccogoneae according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997
See also Allison and Awramik 1989, Hofmann 1976, Horodyski and Donaldson 1980, Knoll and Golubic 1979, Licari 1978, Oehler 1978, Schopf and Blacic 1971, Sergeev et al. 1995, Taylor et al. 2008 and Zhang 1981
Sister taxon: Pleurocapsales
Subtaxa: Chroococcaceae Entophysalidaceae Myriasporella Myxomorpha Vesicophyton
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of India (1 collection)
• Permian of India (1)
• Cambrian of China (4)
• Ediacaran of Estonia (2), Mongolia (1)
• Tonian of Australia (2), Canada (9: Yukon), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Greenland (7), India (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: California)
• Stenian of Canada (9: Nunavut)
• Ectasian of Canada (1: Nunavut), the Russian Federation (10), United States (1: Texas)
• Mesoproterozoic of India (1)
• Calymmian of Australia (5), China (3), the Russian Federation (4)
• Statherian of Australia (16), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (1), India (2)
• Orosirian of Canada (15: Nunavut), Gabon (1)
• Neoarchean of South Africa (1)
• Paleoarchean of Australia (1)
Total: 105 collections including 219 occurrences