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
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