Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Hydrolithaceae according to J. Hrabovsky et al. 2021
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998, Chaurpagar et al. 2012, Gale 2009, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Kundal et al. 2016, Leszczynski et al. 2012, Mirsa et al. 2002, Misra et al. 2011, Quaranta et al. 2007, Rasser and Piller 1999, Sarkar 2017, Sarkar et al. 2011, Saxena et al. 2005, Schneider and Wynne 2007, Tripalo 2017 and Vannucci et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Hydrolithoideae
Subtaxa: Karpathia Lithoporella Pneophyllum
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (11 collections), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (1), China (1), Egypt (3), French Polynesia (14), Guam (2), India (5), Japan (7), Mauritius (1), Mayotte (2), New Caledonia (2), Papua New Guinea (2), the Seychelles (2), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Greece (1), Guam (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Guam (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Cyprus (1), Egypt (9), France (6), Guam (24), India (2), Israel (5), Italy (3), Lebanon (2), Malaysia (1), Malta (9), Poland (5), Romania (1), Spain (9), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene of China (1), India (2), Iran (1), Italy (12), Malta (4), Slovenia (12), Spain (3), United States (1: Georgia)
• Eocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Brazil (7), China (12), Germany (2), Greece (32), Guam (5), Hungary (2), India (28), Italy (12), Japan (2), Peru (1), Romania (14), Slovakia (1), Spain (5)
• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1), India (2), Iraq (2)
• Paleocene of China (8), India (12), Iraq (9), Italy (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of France (3), Germany (2), India (2)
Total: 352 collections including 371 occurrences