Chlorophyta

Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae.

Chlorophyta

Ernst Haeckel · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
green algaePBDB
Sits inside
ViridiplantaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 1799 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 32 of 4911 occurrencesOrdovician — about 325 of 4911 occurrencesSilurian — about 89 of 4911 occurrencesDevonian — about 111 of 4911 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 251 of 4911 occurrencesPermian — about 628 of 4911 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 3 of 4911 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 139 of 4911 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 294 of 4911 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 29 of 4911 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 19 of 4911 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 205 of 4911 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 710 of 4911 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 384 of 4911 occurrencesPaleocene — about 615 of 4911 occurrencesEocene — about 395 of 4911 occurrencesOligocene — about 16 of 4911 occurrencesMiocene — about 87 of 4911 occurrencesPliocene — about 23 of 4911 occurrencesPleistocene — about 213 of 4911 occurrences2091–2021 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2021–1952 Mya — about 1 occurrence1952–1882 Mya — about 1 occurrence1882–1812 Mya — about 1 occurrence1812–1743 Mya — about 18 occurrences1743–1673 Mya — about 21 occurrences1673–1603 Mya — about 21 occurrences1603–1533 Mya — about 6 occurrences1533–1464 Mya — about 5 occurrences1464–1394 Mya — about 5 occurrences1394–1324 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1324–1255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1255–1185 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1185–1115 Mya — about 3 occurrences1115–1046 Mya — about 3 occurrences1046–976 Mya — about 12 occurrences976–906 Mya — about 29 occurrences906–836 Mya — about 29 occurrences836–767 Mya — about 29 occurrences767–697 Mya — about 23 occurrences697–627 Mya — about 17 occurrences627–558 Mya — about 67 occurrences558–488 Mya — about 49 occurrences488–418 Mya — about 415 occurrences418–349 Mya — about 111 occurrences349–279 Mya — about 370 occurrences279–209 Mya — about 782 occurrences209–139 Mya — about 477 occurrences139–70 Mya — about 976 occurrences70–0 Mya — about 1440 occurrences1800 Mya11.7 ka2091 Mya0 Mya

4,911 occurrences of Chlorophyta on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

4,911 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

662 formations

Polat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°ESinjar — 36.39°N, 41.61°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°ESinjar — 36.34°N, 41.73°EMauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EChangxing — 29.50°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 33.08°N, 106.91°ENayband — 30.97°N, 52.99°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.33°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.28°N, 57.43°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.31°N, 88.28°ESylhet Limestone — 22.59°N, 88.01°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ELa Colonia — 42.99°S, 67.67°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 42.52°S, 66.84°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WAlinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EOread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 36.98°N, 96.29°WOread Limestone — 37.05°N, 96.41°WOread Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.07°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 37.76°N, 95.99°WOread Limestone — 38.03°N, 95.86°WOread Limestone — 38.09°N, 95.84°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 38.34°N, 95.64°WOread Limestone — 38.84°N, 95.39°WOread Limestone — 38.92°N, 95.25°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 41.01°N, 96.24°WOread Limestone — 41.01°N, 95.88°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°ETaft — 31.64°N, 53.81°EKhurmala — 35.11°N, 45.82°ERasov — 48.83°N, 17.43°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EBeiguoshan — 36.21°N, 106.61°EBeiguoshan — 35.02°N, 106.66°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°WLakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EBad Cache Rapids — 69.21°N, 82.65°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.50°N, 81.80°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.33°N, 81.78°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.92°N, 84.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 66.85°N, 83.83°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.90°N, 82.03°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.88°N, 82.30°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.00°N, 81.67°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.36°N, 82.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.38°N, 82.31°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.25°W

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The named rock units Chlorophyta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 638 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,658 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chlorophyta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Chlorophyta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,972 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,133 sites for Chlorophyta, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

899 references

Each of the 4,911 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 887 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chlorophyta

Credit
Ernst Haeckel
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chlorophyta was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itViridiplantae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reichenbach 1834