Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Corallinaceae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Schneider and Wynne 2007 and Singh et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Amphiroideae, Aquirrea, Bicorium, Chamberlainoideae, Dermatolithon, Goniolithon, Kymalithon, Leptolithophyllum, Lysvaella, Melobesieae, Mesolithon, Metagoniolithoideae, Neodasyporella, Neogoniolithoideae, Palaeophyllum, Palaeoporolithon, Palaeothamnium, Paleophyllum, Parakymalithon, Paralithoporella, Paraphyllum, Paraporolithon, Paulsilvella, Pomatophyllum, Siamporidium, Subterraniphyllum
Subtaxa: Anthrocardia Arthrocardia Calliarthron Corallina Jania Tenarea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (4 collections), Greece (3), India (7), North Pacific (2), the Seychelles (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Guam (17), India (3), Iran (2), Lebanon (4), Poland (5), Romania (3), South Pacific (1), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of India (4), Italy (3)
• Eocene of China (1), Germany (2), Greece (1), Guam (5), India (19), Indian Ocean (4), Italy (1), Japan (10), Romania (11), Slovakia (2), South Pacific (2), Spain (7)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Greece (1), India (9), Iraq (2), Slovakia (5)
• Paleocene of Austria (5), China (5), Croatia (1), France (4), India (15), Iraq (17), Italy (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (16), Spain (5), Türkiye (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (2: Alabama)
Total: 224 collections including 302 occurrences