Order Pleurocapsales
Parent taxon: Coccogoneae according to A.H. Knoll et al. 1975
See also Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Chroococcales
Subtaxa: Pleurocapsaceae Scissilisphaera
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Tonian of Australia (1 collection), Canada (3: Yukon), Greenland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Orosirian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence