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Ochrophyta
| Description | Ochrophyta is a group of mostly photosynthetic heterokonts. Their plastid is of red algal origin. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochrophyta, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||
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| Rank | phylum | ||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Chromista : Ochrophyta | ||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Ochrophyta | ||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Yellow-green Algae, オクロ植物, Heterokontofyter, Ockraalger | ||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochrophyta |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Aurearenophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Bacillariophyceaeclass | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Diatom | 119 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
| Bolidophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Chrysomerophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Chrysophyceaeclass | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 84 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Dictyochophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 68 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Eustigmatophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Mediophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 18 | 5.33 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Pelagophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
 Phaeophyceaeclass | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Brown Algae | 18 | 237 Ma Middle Triassic | 0 Ma Extant |
| Phaeothamniophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Picophagea class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Pinguiophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Placidiophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Raphidophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Schizocladiophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Synchromophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Synurophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Xanthophyceae class | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Yellow-green Algae | 0 Ma Extant | ||
| Chrysoparadoxaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Rhizocladia genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Viridilobus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zosterites genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Chrysomonada | GBIF | phylum | Chromista : Chrysomonada |
| Ilea E.M.Fries, 1835 | GBIF | genus | Chromista : Ochrophyta : Ilea |
| Heterokontophyta | GBIF | phylum | Chromista : Heterokontophyta |
References
| Algaebase (2010) http://www.algaebase.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
