Cladophorales

Cladophorales
Temporal range: Mid Ordovician– Recent[1] (?)
Cladophora sp.
Scientific classification
(unranked):Viridiplantae
Class:Ulvophyceae
Order:Cladophorales
Haeckel
Families

Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae.[2]

There is a plausible fossil example in the mid-Ordovician Winneshiek shale[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Nowak, Hendrik; Harvey, Thomas H.P.; Liu, Huaibao P.; McKay, Robert M.; Zippi, Pierre A.; Campbell, Donald H.; Servais, Thomas (2017). "Filamentous eukaryotic algae with a possible cladophoralean affinity from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte in Iowa, USA". Geobios. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.06.005.
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.


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