Order Nostocales Borzì 1914

Hormogoneae - Nostocales

Parent taxon: Hormogoneae according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997

See also Horodyski and Donaldson 1980, Kundal 2014, Licari 1978, Schopf and Blacic 1971 and Sergeev et al. 1995

Sister taxa: Orculiphycus, Oscillatoriales, Siphonophycus, Veteronostocale

Subtaxa: Nostocaceae Rivulariaceae Scytonemataceae

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Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Romania (6), South Sudan (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (1)

• Triassic of Greece (3), Oman (1), Slovenia (1)

• Devonian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Quebec), China (1), Norway (1), Sweden (1), United States (2: Tennessee)

• Tonian of Australia (2), Canada (3: Yukon), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)

• Stenian of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Ectasian of Canada (1: Nunavut), the Russian Federation (5)

• Calymmian of China (2), the Russian Federation (20)

• Statherian of India (1)

• Orosirian of Gabon (1)

Total: 65 collections including 87 occurrences

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