Order Volvocales (green algae)

Chlorophyceae - Volvocales

Parent taxon: Chlorophyceae according to E. Taylor et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Anatoliporaceae, Chaetophorales, Chlorococcales, Chlorotylites, Chuvashovia, Dascladales, Dasycladales, Euglena, Hungarodiscus, Hydrodictyaceae, Larvaria, Noremia, Paleosiphonocladales, Pediastrites, Pediastrum, Pleurozonaria, Receptaculitidae, Scenedesmaceae, Tetrasporales, Ulothrix

Subtaxa: Chlorococcaceae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Southern Ocean (11 collections), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Southern Ocean (2)

• Pliocene of Southern Ocean (13)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Southern Ocean (16)

• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (3)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Germany (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (10)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (7), Australia (1), Brazil (1), Israel (2), South Sudan (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Kansas)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), the Russian Federation (2)

• Triassic of Madagascar (1)

• Permian to Triassic of Germany (1)

• Permian of Germany (19)

• Devonian of United States (2: Ohio, Wyoming)

• Silurian of Norway (4), the Russian Federation (6)

• Ordovician of Estonia (19), Serbia (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Cambrian of Belarus (2), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), Finland (1), Norway (3)

• Amgan of the Russian Federation (1)

• Ediacaran of Brazil (2), Estonia (2), Norway (13), the Russian Federation (3)

• Wonokan of Argentina (2)

• Cryogenian of the Russian Federation (3)

• Neoproterozoic of India (1), Norway (3)

• Tonian of Australia (15), Canada (13: Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), United States (27: Arizona)

• Stenian of Canada (3: Nunavut)

• Ectasian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Calymmian of Australia (4), China (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Montana)

• Mesoproterozoic of India (1)

• Statherian of Australia (15), China (4), India (2)

• Orosirian of Canada (4: Nunavut), Gabon (1)

Total: 281 collections including 394 occurrences

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