Parent taxon: Chlorophyceae according to Meyen 1829
See also Chauhan 1991, Lakhanpal et al. 1976 and Pincheira and Garrido 2024
Sister taxa: Anatoliporaceae, Chaetophorales, Chlorococcales, Chlorotylites, Chuvashovia, Dascladales, Dasycladales, Euglena, Hungarodiscus, Hydrodictyaceae, Larvaria, Noremia, Paleosiphonocladales, Pediastrites, Pleurozonaria, Receptaculitidae, Scenedesmaceae, Tetrasporales, Ulothrix, Volvocales
Subtaxa: Pediastrum boryanum Pediastrum musterii
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (3 collections), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Colombia (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (7)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Myanmar (7), United States (47: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), United States (28: Missouri, North Dakota)
• Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Brazil (1), India (1), Israel (1), South Sudan (8), United States (5: North Dakota)
• Permian of India (1)
Total: 143 collections including 144 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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