Family Spongitaceae Kutzing 1843 (red algae)

Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae

Parent taxon: Corallinales according to A.C. Rebelo et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Amorfia, Archaeolithothamnium, Archamphiroa, Corallinaceae, Craticulaceae, Graticula, Halysis, Hydrolithaceae, Lithophyllaceae, Nematothallopsis, Phormidioidea, Razumovskya, Sorithamnion, Stacheoides, Tetonophycus, Yukonella

Subtaxa: Neogoniolithon Spongites

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), the Bahamas (4), Barbados (4), Cayman Islands (1), French Polynesia (8), Greece (1), India (3), Italy (1), Japan (7), Maldives (1), New Caledonia (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Portugal (2), South Pacific (1), United States (4: Hawaii), Vanuatu (2)

• Pliocene of China (2), India (8), Italy (3), North Pacific (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6)

• Miocene of Albania (1), China (2), Croatia (2), Cyprus (2), Czechia (1), Egypt (1), France (7), Greece (40), Hungary (1), India (17), Indonesia (5), Italy (23), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (11)

• Oligocene of China (1), Egypt (1), India (2), Iran (1), Italy (12), Malta (4), Slovenia (11), Spain (30)

• Eocene of Austria (12), Germany (1), Greece (14), India (11), Italy (22), Romania (1), South Pacific (2), Spain (6)

• Paleocene of France (1), India (4), Poland (1), Spain (6)

Total: 335 collections including 458 occurrences

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