Charophyceae

Charophyceae is a class of charophyte green algae. AlgaeBase places it in division Charophyta. Extant (living) species are placed in a single order Charales, commonly known as "stoneworts" and "brittleworts". Fossil members of the class may be placed in separate orders, e.g. Sycidiales.

Charophyceae

Christian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlorophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta

Time the record covers

At least 348 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 12 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences395–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–370 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence382.31 Mya33.9 Mya395 Mya16 Mya

12 occurrences of Charophyceae on record, most of them in the Devonian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

12 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Pozo — 6.57°S, 76.27°WVilemovice — 49.30°N, 16.75°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°E

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The named rock units Charophyceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charophyceae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Charophyceae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Charophyceae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Charophyceae

Credit
Christian Fischer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Charophyceae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChlorophyta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1938