Cladophorales
Order of algae
Cladophorales Temporal range: 1000–0 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. | |
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Cladophora sp. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Ulvophyceae |
Order: | Cladophorales Haeckel |
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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
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ 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.
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