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, Watznaueriales, Sphenolithus, Syracosphaerales, Lapideacassaceae, Tetralithus, Cyclicargolithus, Discoasteroides, Calyptrosphaeraceae, Stephanolithiales, Eodiscoaster, Prymnesiophycidae, Goniolithaceae, Arkhangelskiales, Eiffellithales
Subtaxa: Axopodorhabdaceae Biscutaceae Calyculaceae Cretarhabdaceae Mazaganellaceae Prediscosphaeraceae Tubodiscaceae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (8), Indian Ocean (3), Tanzania (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (6)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (4), Türkiye (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (27), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (6: Alberta), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (161), Israel (1), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (14), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), South Atlantic (9), South Pacific (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: 484 collections including 1792 occurrences