Amphiroa Lamoroux 1812 (red algae)

Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae

Parent taxon: Amphiroideae according to K. Tripalo 2017

See also Chaurpagar et al. 2009, Kishore et al. 2017, Kundal 2011, Kundal and Dharashivkar 2005, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Misra et al. 2006, Misra et al. 2016, Sarkar 2017, Sarkar et al. 2016, Saxena et al. 2005 and Schneider and Wynne 2007

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Amphiroa ellenbergeri Amphiroa elliotti Amphiroa foliacea Amphiroa fragilissima Amphiroa guatemalense Amphiroa iraquensis Amphiroa kaskaella Amphiroa prefragilissima Amphiroa tani

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Egypt (6 collections), French Polynesia (1), Greece (1), Guam (1), India (8), Italy (1), Maldives (1), New Caledonia (2), the Seychelles (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (10)

• Miocene of Egypt (1), France (1), Guam (17), India (7), Malaysia (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Spain (2)

• Oligocene of India (1)

• Eocene of Greece (2), India (1), Iraq (4), United States (1: Florida)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Greece (1), Iraq (2), Pakistan (1)

• Paleocene of China (4), Greece (1), India (1), Iraq (39), Turkey (1)

• Cretaceous of India (3)

Total: 124 collections including 152 occurrences

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