Cladophorales

Order of algae

Cladophorales
Temporal range: 1000–0 Ma
Pha.
Proterozoic
Archean
Had.
Cladophora sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Cladophorales
Haeckel
Families
  • Anadyomenaceae
  • Boodleaceae
  • Cladophoraceae
  • Okellyaceae
  • Pithophoraceae
  • Pseudocladophoraceae
  • Siphonocladaceae
  • Valoniaceae

Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae.[1]

The earliest known representative is Proterocladus antiquus from the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic boundary in North China.[2]

References

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Tang, Qing; Pang, Ke; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (February 2020). "A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4: 543–549. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1122-9.
Taxon identifiers
Cladophorales
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