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Hydrolithaceae

Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae

Taxonomy
Hydrolithaceae was named by Townsend and Huisman (2018). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Corallinales by Hrabovsky et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2018Hydrolithaceae Townsend and Huisman
2021Hydrolithaceae Hrabovsky et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomRhodoplantaeSaunders and Hommersand 2004
phylumRhodophytaWettstein 1922
subphylumEurhodophytina
classFlorideophyceaeCronquist 1960
RankNameAuthor
subclassCorallinophycidae()
orderCorallinalesSilva and Johansen 1986
familyHydrolithaceaeTownsend and Huisman 2018
familyHydrolithaceaeTownsend and Huisman 2018

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Hydrolithaceae Townsend and Huisman 2018
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Subfm. †Hydrolithoideae Kato and Baba
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G. Hydrolithon Foslie 1909
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†Hydrolithon boergesenii Foslie 1909
Hydrolithon braganum Woelkerling et al. 2012
†Hydrolithon lemoinei Miranda 1935
Hydrolithon onkodes Heydrich 1897
Subfm. Mastophoroideae Setchell 1943
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G. Karpathia Maslov 1962
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G. Lithoporella Foslie 1909
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†Lithoporella indica Pal 1969
†Lithoporella minus Johnson 1964
G. Pneophyllum Kützing 1843
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†Pneophyllum conicum Dawson 1960
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Holocene or 122.46000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 122.46 Ma

Collections (394 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0France Lithoporella melobesioides (148640 148645)
Early/Lower Aptian121.4 - 122.46Germany Lithoporella sp. (25535 50421)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0India (Madhya Pradesh) Lithoporella indica (225535)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0France Lithoporella sp. (145809)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0India (Maharashtra) Lithoporella sp. (191528)
Selandian - Thanetian61.6 - 56.0China (Tibet) Lithoporella sp. (215936)
Selandian - Thanetian61.6 - 56.0Iraq (Sulaymaniyah) Lithoporella melobesioides (215122 215129 215130 215131 215134 215135 215136 215148 215149)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Poland (Lesser Poland Voivodeship) Lithoporella sp., Karpathia sp. (215824)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0USA (Alabama) Lithoporella sp. (34652)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0China (Tibet) Lithoporella melobesioides (215483 215484 215485 215486 215487 215488 215489)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Italy Lithoporella sp. (24270)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0India (Meghalaya) Lithoporella melobesioides (214602 214925 214926 214927 214928 214929 214931 214932 214933 214937 214938 214939)
Thanetian - Ypresian59.2 - 47.8India (Meghalaya) Lithoporella melobesioides (214991) Lithoporella sp. (216708)
Thanetian - Ypresian59.2 - 47.8Iraq (Nineveh) Lithoporella sp. (215883 215884)
Thanetian - Lutetian59.2 - 41.3China (Tibet) Lithoporella sp. (215950)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8India (Meghalaya) Lithoporella sp. (214611 216244 216245 216246 216247 216248 216249 216250 216251 216253)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Italy (Veneto) Lithoporella sp. (180313) Lithoporella sp., Mastophoroideae indet. (180312)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Brazil (Amapa) Lithoporella sp. (215888 215889 215890 215891 215894 215895 215896)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Japan Lithoporella melobesioides (143503) Lithoporella minus (143501)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Spain Hydrolithon lemoinei (138288)