Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Corallinales according to Kundal 2010
See also Bassi 1998, Bassi 1998, James et al. 1988, Mirsa et al. 2002, Rasser 1994 and Schneider and Wynne 2007
Sister taxa: Amorfia, Archaeolithothamnium, Archamphiroa, Corallinaceae, Craticulaceae, Graticula, Halysis, Hydrolithaceae, Lithophyllaceae, Nematothallopsis, Phormidioidea, Razumovskya, Sorithamnion, Spongitaceae, Stacheoides, Tetonophycus, Yukonella
Subtaxa: Ethelia Peyssonnelia Polystrata Pseudolithothamnium
Type: Peyssonnelia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), French Polynesia (2), Greece (1), the Seychelles (1), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Miocene of Poland (1), Romania (1)
• Oligocene of Iran (1), Italy (2), Malta (8), Slovenia (2), Spain (2)
• Eocene of Brazil (2), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), India (10), Italy (5), Maldives (1), Romania (14)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Costa Rica (1), India (6), Poland (1), Turkey (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (8), China (2), Costa Rica (6), Croatia (1), France (5), India (1), Iran (2), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (42), Slovenia (1), Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Croatia (1), Egypt (1), France (11), Germany (8), Greece (4), India (3), Italy (3), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Oman (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Romania (5), Slovakia (3), Somalia (1), Spain (3), Turkey (1), United States (1: Arizona)
• Jurassic of India (1)
Total: 209 collections including 237 occurrences