Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Chroococcaceae
Parent taxon: Chroococcales according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997
See also Allison and Awramik 1989, Andrews 1970, Hofmann 1976, Horodyski and Donaldson 1980, Knoll and Golubic 1979, Licari 1978, Oehler 1978, Schopf and Blacic 1971, Sergeev et al. 1995 and Zhang 1981
Sister taxa: Entophysalidaceae, Myriasporella, Myxomorpha, Vesicophyton
Subtaxa: Abundacapsa Aphanocapsaopsis Aphanocapsites Archaeophycus Bisacculoides Coniunctiophycus Eoaphanocapsa Eosynechococcus Globophycus Gloeocapsamorpha Gloeodiniopsis Gloeotheceopsis Melasmatosphaera Nanococcus Palaeomicrocystis Praechroococcus Sphaerophycus Stipulella Synechocystis Tetraphycus Zosterosphaera
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of India (1 collection)
• 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 (8)
• Mesoproterozoic of India (1)
• Calymmian of Australia (4), China (3), the Russian Federation (3)
• Statherian of Australia (15), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (1), India (2)
• Orosirian of Canada (14: Nunavut), Gabon (1)
Total: 95 collections including 186 occurrences