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Lithophylloideae

Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1943Lithophylloideae Setchell
1998Lithophylloideae Bailey and Chapman
2005Lithophylloideae Saxena et al. p. 281
2006Lithophylloideae Misra et al. p. 32
2007Lithophylloideae Kroeger p. 5
2007Lithophylloideae Schneider and Wynne
2010Lithophylloideae Kundal
2011Lithophylloideae Kundal
2012Lithophylloideae Chaurpagar et al.
2016Lithophylloideae Hrabovsky et al. p. 513
2016Lithophylloideae Misra et al. p. 310
2016Lithophylloideae Sarkar et al. p. 72
2017Lithophylloideae Kishore et al. p. 210
2018Lithophylloideae Sarkar p. 74
2019Lithophylloideae Humblet et al. figs. Table 1
2021Lithophylloideae Rebelo et al. p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomRhodoplantaeSaunders and Hommersand 2004
phylumRhodophytaWettstein 1922
subphylumEurhodophytina
classFlorideophyceaeCronquist 1960
RankNameAuthor
familyCorallinophycidae()
orderCorallinalesSilva and Johansen 1986
familyLithophyllaceaeAthanasiadis 2016
subfamilyLithophylloideaeSetchell 1943
subfamilyLithophylloideaeSetchell 1943

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.

Subfm. Lithophylloideae Setchell 1943
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G. †Distichoplax Pia 1934
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Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
G. Lithophyllum Philippi 1837
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Lithophyllum bassanense Mastrorilli 1973
Lithophyllum bonyense Johnson 1964
Lithophyllum capederi Lemoine 1925
Lithophyllum dentatum Kützing 1841
Lithophyllum ghorabi Souaya 1963
Lithophyllum heteromorphum Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi 1837
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Invalid names: Lithophyllum viennotti Lemoine 1929 [synonym]
Lithophyllum indicum Sastry et al. 1963
Lithophyllum intumescens Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum kamptneri Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum lateporatum Mastrorilli 1973
Lithophyllum minimum Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum nitorum Adey and Adey 1973
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Invalid names: Lithophyllum mgarrense Bosence 1983 [synonym]
Lithophyllum personatum Airoldi 1932
Lithophyllum profundum Johnson 1954
Lithophyllum quadratum Ishijima 1954
Lithophyllum royoi Miranda 1935
Lithophyllum simplex Lemoine 1927
Lithophyllum vicetinum Mastrorilli 1973
G. †Pseudoamphiroa Moussavian 1989
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Pseudoamphiroa propria Lemoine 1934
G. Titanoderma Naegeli 1858
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Titanoderma duplex Pisera and Studencki 1989
Titanoderma nataliae Maslov 1956
Titanoderma prototypum Foslie 1897
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Invalid names: Lithophyllum tessellatum Me-Lemoine 1930 [synonym]
Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
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 Pridoli to the top of the Holocene or 423.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 419.2 Ma

Collections (638 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pridoli423.0 - 419.2Tajikistan Lithophyllum sokolovi (169307 169308)
Early/Lower Aptian121.4 - 122.46Germany Lithophyllum sp. (25535 50421 50512)
Albian113.0 - 100.5India (Tamil Nadu) Lithophyllum sp. (219378 219379)
Albian113.0 - 100.5India Lithophyllum altemicellum (148391) Pseudoamphiroa propria (222126)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Portugal Lithophyllum shebae (145812)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Portugal Lithophyllum shebae (145814)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Iraq Lithophyllum shebae, Lithophyllum sp. (148337) Lithophyllum sp. (148341 148345 148346 148348 148349 148352 148353 148354 148355) Lithophyllum sp., Lithophyllum shebae, Lithophyllum venezuelaersis (148338) Lithophyllum venezuelaersis (148339 148342 148343 148344 148351) Lithophyllum venezuelaersis, Lithophyllum shebae (148335 148336 148347) Lithophyllum venezuelaersis, Lithophyllum sp. (148340 148350)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Ukraine (Khmelnytski) Lithophyllum premoluccense (222613)
Senonian100.5 - 66.0India Lithophyllum sp. A, Lithophyllum sp. B, Lithophyllum sp., Distichoplax biserialis (155339)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Iraq Lithophyllum sp. (148356 148357 148360 148363 148364 148365 148367) Lithophyllum venezuelaersis, Lithophyllum shebae, Lithophyllum sp. (148358) Lithophyllum venezuelaersis, Lithophyllum sp. (148361)
Santonian86.3 - 83.6France Lithophyllum sp. (148656)
Santonian - Campanian86.3 - 72.1Slovakia Lithophyllum sp. (88271)
Campanian83.6 - 72.1Ukraine (Khmelnytski) Lithophyllum translucidum (222614)
Campanian - Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0Slovakia Lithophyllum sp. (88186)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0France Lithophyllum senonicum (149310) Lithophyllum sp. (145809)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Ukraine (Khmelnytski) Lithophyllum senonicum (222612)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0India (Madhya Pradesh) Distichoplax raoi (224749)
Danian66.0 - 61.6India (Madhya Pradesh) Distichoplax raoi (214823)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Poland (Lesser Poland Voivodeship) Lithophyllum sp. (215834)
Danian66.0 - 61.6Austria (Salzburg) Lithophyllum sp., Lithophyllum pisolithicum (87003)