†family Palaoaplysinaceae Vachard and Kabanov 2007 (red algae)
Rhodophyceae - Archaeolithophyllales - Palaoaplysinaceae
Parent taxon: Archaeolithophyllales according to K. D. Anderson and B. Beauchamp 2014
Sister taxon: Palaeoaplysinidae
Subtaxa: Eopalaeoaplysina Palaeoaplysina
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (4: Nunavut, Yukon collections), China (2), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (2: California, Idaho)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), Japan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (4)
Total: 33 collections including 34 occurrences