Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Corallinaceae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Schneider and Wynne 2007 and Singh et al. 2009
Sister taxa: Amphiroideae, Aquirrea, Bicorium, Chamberlainoideae, Dermatolithon, Goniolithon, Kymalithon, Leptolithophyllum, Lysvaella, Melobesieae, Mesolithon, Metagoniolithoideae, Neodasyporella, Neogoniolithoideae, Palaeophyllum, Palaeoporolithon, Palaeothamnium, Paleophyllum, Parakymalithon, Paralithoporella, Paraphyllum, Paraporolithon, Paulsilvella, Pomatophyllum, Siamporidium, Subterraniphyllum
Subtaxa: Anthrocardia Arthrocardia Calliarthron Corallina Jania Tenarea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (4 collections), China (2), Greece (3), India (7), the Seychelles (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)
• Pliocene of China (1)
• Miocene of Australia (4), Guam (17), India (3), Iran (2), Lebanon (4), Poland (5), Romania (3), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of India (4), Italy (3)
• Eocene of Australia (2), China (1), Germany (2), Greece (1), Guam (5), India (23), Italy (1), Japan (10), Romania (11), Slovakia (2), Spain (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Greece (1), India (9), Iraq (2)
• Paleocene of Austria (5), China (5), Croatia (1), France (4), India (15), Iraq (17), Italy (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (8), Turkey (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (2: Alabama)
Total: 201 collections including 276 occurrences