Parent taxon: Chlorophyta according to Dettman 1986
See also Vallati et al. 2016 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Amgaella, Bryopsidophyceae, Calathella, Caulerpites, Charophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Dasycladophyceae, Fuxianospira, Grypania, Indopolia, Lanceoforma, Microfasta, Monostysisyrinaceae, Palaeomastigocladus, Physophycus, Proterotainia, Pseudopalaeoporella, Retephycus, Sgrossoella, Sinocylindra, Sinophyllum, Sphaeroporella, Spheroporella, Tetrasporaceae, Thaumatoporellales, Timanella, Ulvophyceae, Yakutina
Subtaxa: Schizosporis assamica Schizosporis crassimurus Schizosporis laevigatus Schizosporis microreticulatus Schizosporis parvus Schizosporis reticulatus Schizosporis rugulatus Schizosporis spriggi Schizosporis sprigii Schizosporis vermiculatus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Eocene of United States (34: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (7), Australia (11), the Bahamas (2), Canada (5: Alberta), India (2), Morocco (1), United States (2: Montana, New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of India (1)
• Jurassic of India (2), Morocco (1)
• Triassic of Madagascar (1)
Total: 72 collections including 90 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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