Florideophyceae - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Corallinaceae according to M. Humblet et al. 2019
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998, Kishore et al. 2015, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Sarkar 2017, Schneider and Wynne 2007 and Tripalo 2017
Sister taxa: Amphiroideae, Aquirrea, Bicorium, Chamberlainoideae, Corallinoideae, Dermatolithon, Goniolithon, Kymalithon, Leptolithophyllum, Lysvaella, Melobesieae, Mesolithon, Neodasyporella, Neogoniolithoideae, Palaeophyllum, Palaeoporolithon, Palaeothamnium, Paleophyllum, Parakymalithon, Paralithoporella, Paraphyllum, Paraporolithon, Paulsilvella, Pomatophyllum, Siamporidium, Subterraniphyllum
Subtaxa: Harveylithon Metagoniolithon Porolithon
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (8 collections), Barbados (3), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (2), Curaçao (1), French Polynesia (3), Guam (1), India (7), Maldives (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (1), Papua New Guinea (2), the Seychelles (1), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Miocene of Poland (2)
Total: 39 collections including 47 occurrences