Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales
Parent taxon: Prymnesiophyceae according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Athenagalea, Biantholithus, Braarudosphaerales, Ceratolithaceae, Coccolithales, Daktylethra, Discoasterales, Ellipsagelosphaeraceae, Ellipsolithus, Gladiolithus, Ilselithina, Isochrysidales, Lanternithus, Minylitha, Neosphaera, Pedinocyclus, Phaeocystales, Prymnesiales, Rhomboasteraceae, Tetralithoides, Transversopontis, Zygodiscales, Stephanolithiales, Watznaueriales, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Sphenolithus, Eodiscoaster, Eiffellithales, Discoasteroides, Tetralithus, Lapideacassaceae, Syracosphaerales, Prymnesiophycidae, Arkhangelskiales, Goniolithaceae, Cyclicargolithus
Subtaxa: Axopodorhabdaceae Biscutaceae Calyculaceae Cretarhabdaceae Mazaganellaceae Prediscosphaeraceae Tubodiscaceae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Tanzania (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Turkey (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (8), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (6: Alberta), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Israel (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (67), Tanzania (3), United States (8: Mississippi, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (10), Morocco (6), Saudi Arabia (4), Spain (121), Switzerland (1)
Total: 249 collections including 1071 occurrences