Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Cretarhabdaceae
Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Axopodorhabdaceae, Biscutaceae, Calyculaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Prediscosphaeraceae, Tubodiscaceae
Subtaxa: Cretarhabdus Cruciellipsis Flabellites Grantarhabdus Helenea Miravetesina Pickelhaube Polypodorhabdus Retecapsa Speetonia
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Austria (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (70), Israel (1), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (11), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), South Atlantic (3), Spain (41), Tanzania (3)
• Jurassic of Germany (5), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 166 collections including 220 occurrences