Family Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925

Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Entophysalidaceae

Parent taxon: Chroococcales according to V. N. Sergeev et al. 1995

See also Hofmann 1976, Horodyski and Donaldson 1980, Knoll and Golubic 1979, Oehler 1978 and Zhang 1981

Sister taxa: Chroococcaceae, Myriasporella, Myxomorpha, Vesicophyton

Subtaxa: Chlorogloeaopsis Eoentophysalis

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Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Tonian of Australia (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Greenland (4)

• Ectasian of Canada (1: Nunavut), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Texas)

• Calymmian of Australia (5), China (1), the Russian Federation (2)

• Orosirian of Canada (8: Nunavut)

• Neoarchean of South Africa (1)

Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence

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