Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Spongitaceae according to A.C. Rebelo et al. 2021
See also Aguirre et al. 2012, Bailey and Chapman 1998, Bassi 1998, Gale 2009, Hamad 2008, Hrabovsky et al. 2016, Humblet et al. 2019, Jauhri et al. 2006, Kishore et al. 2015, Kroeger 2007, Kundal 2011, Leszczynski et al. 2012, Mirsa et al. 2002, Misra et al. 2011, Misra et al. 2016, Rasser and Piller 1999, Sarkar 2017, Sarkar et al. 2016, Schneider and Wynne 2007, Tripalo 2017 and Vannucci et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Neogoniolithon
Subtaxa: Spongites albanensis Spongites fruticulosa Spongites personatus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Greece (1), India (3), Italy (1), Japan (7), Portugal (2), South Pacific (1), United States (4: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of India (8), Italy (3), North Pacific (1), Portugal (1), Spain (5)
• Miocene of Albania (1), Croatia (1), Cyprus (1), Czechia (1), Egypt (1), France (6), Greece (40), India (14), Indonesia (5), Italy (17), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (1), Spain (10)
• Oligocene of Egypt (1), Iran (1), Italy (11), Malta (4), Slovenia (8), Spain (29)
• Eocene of Austria (12), Greece (8), India (11), Italy (13), South Pacific (2), Spain (5)
• Paleocene of Poland (1), Spain (6)
Total: 254 collections including 281 occurrences
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