Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Axopodorhabdaceae, Calyculaceae, Cretarhabdaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Prediscosphaeraceae, Tubodiscaceae
Subtaxa: Biscutum Boletuvelum Crucibiscutum Discorhabdus Gaarderella Gephyrobiscutum Seribiscutum Similiscutum Sollasites
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of South Pacific (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Indian Ocean (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (13), Belgium (1), Canada (5: Alberta), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (101), North Pacific (2), Slovakia (1), South Atlantic (7), Spain (17)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (7), Morocco (5), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (121), Switzerland (1)
Total: 295 collections including 774 occurrences