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

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

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

References edit

  1. ^ a b 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. 50 (4): 303–309. Bibcode:2017Geobi..50..303N. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.06.005. hdl:2381/40483.
  2. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.