Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Hydrolithaceae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Hrabovsky et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Mastophoroideae
Subtaxa: Hydrolithon
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), Barbados (2), Cayman Islands (1), China (1), French Polynesia (21), India (1), Japan (7), Maldives (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mayotte (1), New Caledonia (4), North Pacific (1), Papua New Guinea (2), the Seychelles (1), South Pacific (3), Taiwan (1), United States (8: Hawaii), Vanuatu (3)
• Pliocene of China (1), Portugal (1)
• Miocene of China (5), Indonesia (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), South Pacific (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Iran (1)
• Eocene of Italy (1), Spain (2)
• Paleocene of Spain (2)
Total: 92 collections including 126 occurrences