Coccolithophyceae - Isochrysidales - Prinsiacea
Parent taxon: Isochrysidales according to P. R. Bown 2016
Sister taxa: Gephyrocapsaceae, Isochrysidaceae, Noelaerhabdaceae, Prinsiaceae
Subtaxa: Toweius
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (17 collections), South Pacific (14)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (2)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (19), Slovenia (1), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (4), North Atlantic (51), North Pacific (7), South Pacific (54)
• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (4), South Pacific (4)
• Paleocene of Argentina (9), Indian Ocean (7), North Atlantic (41), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (31), Tanzania (1), United States (3: Alabama, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (6), South Pacific (3)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3), Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (1)
Total: 295 collections including 533 occurrences