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Cladophorales Temporal range: 1000–0 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had.
Cladophora sp.
Scientific classification
Clade:	Viridiplantae
Division:	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.

The earliest known representative is Proterocladus antiquus from the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic boundary in North China.

References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Cladophorales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
2. Tang, Qing; Pang, Ke; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (February 2020). "A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4: 543–549. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1122-9. PMC 8668152.

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