Coccolithophyceae - Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
Full reference: P. R. Bown and J. R. Young. 1997. Mesozoic calcareous nannoplankton classification. Journal of Nannoplankton Research. 19:21-36
Parent taxon: Podorhabdales according to P. R. Bown and J. R. Young 1997
Sister taxa: Biscutaceae, Calyculaceae, Cretarhabdaceae, Mazaganellaceae, Prediscosphaeraceae, Tubodiscaceae
Subtaxa: Axopodorhabdus Cleistorhabdus Cribrocorona Cribrosphaerella Dekapodorhabdus Dodekapodorhabdus Ethmorhabdus Hemipodorhabdus Hexapodorhabdus Nephrolithus Octocyclus Octopodorhabdus Perissocyclus Perrisocyclus Podorhabdus Teichorhabdus Tetrapodorhabdus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (5 collections), Indian Ocean (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (4)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (26), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (31), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (7), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), South Atlantic (3), United States (8: Mississippi, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Spain (8), Switzerland (1)
Total: 116 collections including 160 occurrences