Botryococcus Kutzing 1849

Algae - Botryococcaceae

Parent taxon: Botryococcaceae according to V. S. Perez Loinaze et al. 2023

See also Chauhan 1991, Clyde et al. 2021, Nuñez Otaño et al. 2024, Papú 2002, Perez Loinaze et al. 2025 and Pérez Pincheira and Garrido 2024

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Botryococcus braunii

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (22 collections), India (11), Italy (1), Portugal (1), United States (2: North Carolina, Washington)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (3), Colombia (1), India (2), New Zealand (3), Türkiye (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (6)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Azerbaijan (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Germany (22), Myanmar (3)

• Paleocene of Argentina (18), India (1)

• Paleogene of Argentina (1), India (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2), New Zealand (2)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Argentina (66), Brazil (6), Chile (1), Denmark (1), Nigeria (21), South Sudan (43), the United Kingdom (4)

• Jurassic of Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (7)

• Permian of Canada (2: Nunavut), Germany (5), United States (1: Kansas)

• Carboniferous of United States (7: Kansas)

Total: 282 collections including 289 occurrences

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