†order Chaetophorales Wille (green algae)
Chlorophyceae - Chaetophorales
Parent taxon: Chlorophyceae according to E. Taylor et al. 2008
See also Dineley and Metcalfe 1999
Sister taxa: Anatoliporaceae, Chlorococcales, Chlorotylites, Chuvashovia, Dascladales, Dasycladales, Euglena, Hungarodiscus, Hydrodictyaceae, Larvaria, Noremia, Paleosiphonocladales, Pediastrites, Pediastrum, Pleurozonaria, Receptaculitidae, Scenedesmaceae, Tetrasporales, Ulothrix, Volvocales
Subtaxa: Chaetophoraceae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Resita - Molodova Noua area, Barremian - Aptian (Cretaceous of Romania)