Caulerpites

Parent taxon: Chlorophyta according to B. C. Parker and E. Y. Dawson 1965

See also Knowlton 1919

Sister taxa: Amgaella, Bryopsidophyceae, Calathella, Charophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Chuariophyceae, Dasycladophyceae, Doushantuophyton, Fuxianospira, Indopolia, Laenigma, Lanceoforma, Megaspirella, Microfasta, Monostysisyrinaceae, Palaeomastigocladus, Parallelphyton, Physophycus, Proterotainia, Pseudopalaeoporella, Retephycus, Schizosporis, Sgrossoella, Sinocylindra, Sinophyllum, Sphaeroporella, Spheroporella, Tetrasporaceae, Thaumatoporellales, Timanella, Ulvophyceae, Walcottophycus, Yakutina

Subtaxa: Caulerpites denticaulata Caulerpites incrassatus Caulerpites lingulatus Caulerpites lycopodioides

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Type: Fucoides lycopodioides

Ecology: stationary epifaunal "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at LACM 1267, Del Gado Drive (Miocene of California)

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