†family Prediscosphaeraceae Rood et al. 1971 (haptophyte alga)
Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Prediscosphaeraceae
Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Axopodorhabdaceae, Biscutaceae, Calyculaceae, Cretarhabdaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Tubodiscaceae
Subtaxa: Petrarhabdus Prediscosphaera
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (1 collection)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Indian Ocean (2), Türkiye (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (24), Austria (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Indian Ocean (138), Israel (1), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (1), Romania (1), South Atlantic (7), South Pacific (2)
Total: 189 collections including 314 occurrences