Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Goniodomaceae
Parent taxon: Gonyaulacales according to Taylor 1980
Sister taxa: Areoligeraceae, Balcattia, Batiacasphaera, Bourkidinium, Ceratiaceae, Cerebrocysta, Chlamydophorella, Cladopyxiaceae, Cleistosphaeridium, Dapsilidinium, Dingodinium, Dissimulidinium, Ellipsoidictyum, Elytrocysta, Epiplosphaera, Flamingoia, Fusiformacysta, Gardodinium, Gonyaulacaceae, Heslertonia, Hystrichosphaeridiaceae, Impletosphaeridium, Labyrinthodinium, Lophocysta, Membranilarnacia, Membranilarnax, Moorodinium, Papuadinium, Paucisphaeridium, Peridictyocysta, Productodinium, Reticulatosphaera, Shublikodiniaceae, Tanyosphaeridium, Tetrachacysta, Valensiella, Xiphophoridium
Subtaxa: Alisocysta Dinopterygium Eisenackia Geonettia Homotryblium Hystrichosphaeridium Taleisphaera
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Denmark (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Colombia (7), India (1)
• Tertiary of India (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Missouri)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (3), Argentina (10), Brazil (6), Egypt (12), India (3), Israel (5), Portugal (2), United States (3: New Jersey)
• Jurassic of India (1)
• Cambrian of Finland (1)
Total: 63 collections including 80 occurrences