Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Parent taxon: Hapalidiaceae according to M. Humblet et al. 2019
See also Bailey and Chapman 1998, Chaurpagar et al. 2012, Gale 2009, Ghosh and Sarkar 2013, Granier et al. 2008, Hrabovsky et al. 2016, Iryu et al. 2009, Kishore et al. 2015, Kishore et al. 2017, Kroeger 2007, Kundal 2011, Kundal 2014, Kundal et al. 2013, Kundal et al. 2016, Leszczynski et al. 2012, Mirsa et al. 2006, Misra et al. 2006, Misra et al. 2006, Misra et al. 2011, Misra et al. 2009, Mude and Kundal 2012, Roozpeykar et al. 2019, Sarkar 2017, Sarkar et al. 2011, Sarkar and Rao 2018, Schneider and Wynne 2007, Singh et al. 2009, Singh et al. 2010, Souaya 1963, Stockar 2000, Tripalo 2017, Vannucci et al. 2008 and Vannucci et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Austrolithoideae, Choreonematoideae
Subtaxa: Aethesolithon Clathromorphum Melobesia
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), India (4), New Caledonia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Egypt (21), Guam (9), India (3), Indonesia (5), Italy (9), Morocco (1), Poland (3), Spain (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of India (3), Italy (5), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Costa Rica (1), Greece (1), Hungary (2), India (19), Maldives (10)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Costa Rica (1), India (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), Costa Rica (12), India (7)
• Cretaceous of India (2)
Total: 131 collections including 139 occurrences