Chlorophyceae

The Chlorophyceae, also known as chlorophycean algae, are one of the classes of green algae, within the phylum Chlorophyta. They are a large assemblage of mostly freshwater and terrestrial organisms; many members are important primary producers in the ecosystems they inhabit. Their body plans are diverse and range from single flagellated or non-flagellated cells to colonies or filaments of cells. The class Chlorophyceae has been distinguished on the basis of ultrastructural morphology; molecular traits are also being used to classify taxa within the class.

Chlorophyceae

Luis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 2.1 es · 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 1799 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 10 of 3704 occurrencesOrdovician — about 256 of 3704 occurrencesSilurian — about 73 of 3704 occurrencesDevonian — about 48 of 3704 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 200 of 3704 occurrencesPermian — about 575 of 3704 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 3704 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 128 of 3704 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 233 of 3704 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 17 of 3704 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 3704 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 166 of 3704 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 560 of 3704 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 207 of 3704 occurrencesPaleocene — about 513 of 3704 occurrencesEocene — about 249 of 3704 occurrencesOligocene — about 9 of 3704 occurrencesMiocene — about 38 of 3704 occurrencesPliocene — about 20 of 3704 occurrencesPleistocene — about 148 of 3704 occurrences2091–2021 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2021–1952 Mya — about 1 occurrence1952–1882 Mya — about 1 occurrence1882–1812 Mya — about 1 occurrence1812–1743 Mya — about 14 occurrences1743–1673 Mya — about 17 occurrences1673–1603 Mya — about 17 occurrences1603–1533 Mya — about 4 occurrences1533–1464 Mya — about 4 occurrences1464–1394 Mya — about 3 occurrences1394–1324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1324–1255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1255–1185 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1185–1115 Mya — about 3 occurrences1115–1046 Mya — about 3 occurrences1046–976 Mya — about 10 occurrences976–906 Mya — about 24 occurrences906–836 Mya — about 24 occurrences836–767 Mya — about 24 occurrences767–697 Mya — about 19 occurrences697–627 Mya — about 11 occurrences627–558 Mya — about 41 occurrences558–488 Mya — about 20 occurrences488–418 Mya — about 330 occurrences418–349 Mya — about 49 occurrences349–279 Mya — about 296 occurrences279–209 Mya — about 697 occurrences209–139 Mya — about 399 occurrences139–70 Mya — about 663 occurrences70–0 Mya — about 1026 occurrences1800 Mya11.7 ka2091 Mya0 Mya

3,704 occurrences of Chlorophyceae on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3,704 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

518 formations

Polat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°ESinjar — 36.39°N, 41.61°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°ESinjar — 36.34°N, 41.73°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EChangxing — 29.50°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 33.08°N, 106.91°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.33°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.28°N, 57.43°EMauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.60°N, 88.04°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EAlinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°ELa Colonia — 42.99°S, 67.67°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 42.52°S, 66.84°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WKhurmala — 35.11°N, 45.82°EBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°ERasov — 48.83°N, 17.43°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WSylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EOread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 36.98°N, 96.29°WOread Limestone — 37.05°N, 96.41°WOread Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.07°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 37.76°N, 95.99°WOread Limestone — 38.03°N, 95.86°WOread Limestone — 38.09°N, 95.84°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 38.34°N, 95.64°WOread Limestone — 38.84°N, 95.39°WOread Limestone — 38.92°N, 95.25°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 41.01°N, 96.24°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.21°N, 82.65°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.50°N, 81.80°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.33°N, 81.78°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.92°N, 84.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.85°N, 83.83°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.88°N, 82.30°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.00°N, 81.67°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.36°N, 82.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.38°N, 82.31°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°WZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EGaleros — 36.14°N, 111.83°WGaleros — 36.15°N, 111.83°WGaleros — 36.27°N, 111.91°WGaleros — 36.16°N, 111.86°WZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°Ecalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°WLucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WLucan — 53.63°N, 6.73°WDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°E

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The named rock units Chlorophyceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 494 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,178 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chlorophyceae and its relatives

Permian

Where Chlorophyceae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,836 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,122 sites for Chlorophyceae, and this reads 240 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

653 references

Each of the 3,704 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. 641 further references are not listed. 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 Chlorophyceae

Credit
Luis Fernández García
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.1 es
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chlorophyceae 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 PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kützing 1843