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Melobesioideae

Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1885Melobesioideae Bizzozero
1963Melobesioideae Souaya p. 1207
1998Melobesioideae Bailey and Chapman p. 694
2000Melobesioideae Stockar p. 413
2006Melobesioideae Mirsa et al.
2006Melobesioideae Misra et al.
2007Melobesioideae Kroeger p. 12
2007Melobesioideae Schneider and Wynne
2008Melobesioideae Granier et al. p. 313
2009Melobesioideae Gale p. 92
2009Melobesioideae Iryu et al. figs. Table 1
2009Melobesioideae Misra et al. p. 327
2009Melobesioideae Singh et al. p. 21
2010Melobesioideae Singh et al.
2010Melobesioideae Vannucci et al. p. 224
2011Melobesioideae Kundal
2011Melobesioideae Misra et al. p. 358
2011Melobesioideae Sarkar et al.
2012Melobesioideae Chaurpagar et al.
2012Melobesioideae Leszczynski et al. p. 374 figs. Table 1
2012Melobesioideae Mude and Kundal
2013Melobesioideae Ghosh and Sarkar
2013Melobesioideae Kundal et al.
2014Melobesioideae Kundal p. 136 figs. Table 1
2015Melobesioideae Kishore et al. p. 62
2016Melobesioideae Hrabovsky et al. p. 503
2016Melobesioideae Kundal et al.
2017Melobesioideae Kishore et al. p. 206
2017Melobesioideae Sarkar p. 16
2017Melobesioideae Tripalo p. 14
2018Melobesioideae Sarkar and Rao p. 771
2019Melobesioideae Humblet et al. figs. Table 1
2019Melobesioideae Roozpeykar et al. p. 1605

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomRhodoplantaeSaunders and Hommersand 2004
phylumRhodophytaWettstein 1922
subphylumEurhodophytina
classFlorideophyceaeCronquist 1960
RankNameAuthor
familyCorallinophycidae()
orderHapalidialesNelson and Sutherland 2015
familyHapalidiaceaeGrey 1864
subfamilyMelobesioideaeBizzozero 1885
subfamilyMelobesioideaeBizzozero 1885

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. Melobesioideae Bizzozero 1885
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G. †Aethesolithon Johnson 1964
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G. †Clathromorphum Foslie 1898
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Clathromorphum parcum Adey and Johnson 1972
G. Melobesia Lamoroux 1812
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Melobesia assamica Rao 1943
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 Albian to the top of the Holocene or 113.20000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 100.5 Ma

Collections (131 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Albian113.2 - 100.5India Melobesioideae indet (222127 222128)
Selandian - Thanetian61.66 - 56.0China (Tibet) Melobesioideae indet. (215937)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0India (Meghalaya) Melobesioideae indet (214673 216235 216236 216237 216238)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0India (Megahlaya) Melobesioideae indet. (214608)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0Costa Rica (Guanacaste) Melobesioideae indet. (215866 215867 215868 215869 215870 215871 215873 215875 215876 215878 215879 215880)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0India (Cauvery Basin) Melobesioideae indet. (137534)
Thanetian - Ypresian59.24 - 48.07Costa Rica (Guanacaste) Melobesioideae indet. (215787)
Thanetian - Ypresian59.24 - 48.07India Melobesioideae indet. (193458)
Early/Lower Eocene56.0 - 48.07India (Meghalaya) Melobesia assamica (224695)
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07Maldives (Gaafaru) Melobesioideae indet. (214809 214810 214811 214812 214813 214814 214815 214816 214817)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.03Costa Rica (Guanacaste) Melobesioideae indet. (215865)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.03Maldives (Kaashidhoo) Melobesioideae indet. (214818)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03India (Meghalaya) Melobesioideae indet. (214701 214704 214705 214706) Melobesioideae indet. 1 (214594 214595 214596 214699) Melobesioideae indet. 2 (214700)
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71India (Gujarat) Melobesioideae indet (216414 216416)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene48.07 - 33.9Greece Melobesia sp. (143458)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71India (Gujarat) Melobesioideae indet. (215399 215400 215401 215402)
Bartonian - Priabonian41.03 - 33.9India (Meghalaya) Melobesioideae indet. (214708 214710)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Hungary Melobesioideae indet. (69699 69700)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9India Melobesioideae indet. (156242)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Italy (Vicenza) Melobesioideae indet. (69701)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3India (Gujarat) Melobesioideae indet (222149 222150 222154)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Spain M. sp. A, M. sp. B, Melobesioideae indet. (147599)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Italy Melobesioideae indet. (211273 211274 211275 211276)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Guam Aethesolithon problematicum (150169 150170 150196 150198) Melobesia guamensis (150002)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene23.04 - 11.63India (Gujarat) M. sp. 1, M. sp. 2 (137526 137527)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333Ukraine (Khmelnytski) Melobesia badjii (222606)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333Guam Aethesolithon problematicum (150195)
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Italy (Sassari) Melobesioideae indet (222413 222414 222416 222419)
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Egypt (Suez) Melobesioideae indet (222009 222011 222012 222013 222014 222015 222016 222017 222018 222019 222020 222021 222022 222023 222024 222026 222027 222028 222029 222030 222031)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.45 - 13.82Australia (Western Australia) Melobesia sp. (34466)
Langhian15.98 - 13.82Türkiye Melobesioideae indet. (166093)
Langhian15.98 - 13.82Indonesia (East Kalimantan) Aethesolithon problematicum (221870 221871 221872 221873 221874)
Langhian - Serravallian15.98 - 11.63India (Gujarat) Melobesioideae indet (222033)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Poland Melobesia badji (70539)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Australia (Queensland) Aethesolithon thalli (149843)
Badenian13.82 - 12.8Poland Melobesia sp. (138295 147574)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Guam Aethesolithon grandis (150085 150155 150199)
Tortonian - Messinian11.63 - 5.333Morocco Melobesioideae indet. (70929)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Algeria Melobesioideae indet. (70885 70886)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Spain (Almería) Melobesioideae indet. (137745)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Italy Melobesioideae indet. (69923 138034) M. sp. A, Melobesioideae indet. (34688)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Italy (Salento Peninsula) Melobesioideae indet. (138077)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Italy (Salento Peninsul) M. sp. A (138075)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Spain Melobesioideae indet. (34472)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8India (Andaman Islands) Melobesioideae indet (222377)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene2.58 - 0.129New Caledonia Melobesioideae indet. (89431)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Australia (Queensland) Aethesolithon sp. (184506)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0India (Gujarat) M. sp. 1, M. sp. 2 (137528)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0India (Lakshadweep Islands) Aethesolithon problematicum (222392) Melobesioideae indet, Aethesolithon problematicum, Clathromorphum parcum (222393)