Cladophorales

Cladophorales; Temporal range: Mid Ordovician– Recent[1] (?) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Cladophora sp.
Scientific classification
Phylum:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Ulvophyceae
Order:	Cladophorales; Haeckel
Families
	Anadyomenaceae; Boodleaceae; Cladophoraceae; Okellyaceae; Pithophoraceae; Pseudocladophoraceae; Siphonocladaceae; Valoniaceae;

Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae.[2]

There is a plausible fossil example in the mid-Ordovician Winneshiek shale[1]

References

Nowak, Hendrik; Harvey, Thomas H.P.; Liu, Huaibao P.; McKay, Robert M.; Zippi, Pierre A.; Campbell, Donald H.; Servais, Thomas (2017). "Filamentous eukaryotic algae with a possible cladophoralean affinity from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte in Iowa, USA". Geobios. 50 (4): 303–309. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.06.005. hdl:2381/40483.
See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

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