Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Corallinaceae according to K. Tripalo 2017
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998 and Saxena et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Aquirrea, Bicorium, Chamberlainoideae, Corallinoideae, Dermatolithon, Goniolithon, Kymalithon, Leptolithophyllum, Lysvaella, Melobesieae, Mesolithon, Metagoniolithoideae, Neodasyporella, Neogoniolithoideae, Palaeophyllum, Palaeoporolithon, Palaeothamnium, Paleophyllum, Parakymalithon, Paralithoporella, Paraphyllum, Paraporolithon, Paulsilvella, Pomatophyllum, Siamporidium, Subterraniphyllum
Subtaxa: Amphiroa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Egypt (6 collections), French Polynesia (1), Greece (1), Guam (1), India (8), Italy (1), Maldives (1), New Caledonia (2), the Seychelles (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (10)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), France (1), Guam (17), India (7), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of India (1)
• Eocene of Greece (2), India (1), Iraq (4), United States (1: Florida)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Greece (1), Iraq (2), Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of China (4), Greece (1), India (1), Iraq (39), Türkiye (1)
• Cretaceous of India (3)
Total: 124 collections including 152 occurrences