Biology:Trochiliscaceae

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Short description: Extinct family of algae

Trochiliscaceae
Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification e
(unranked): Viridiplantae
(unranked): Charophyta
Class: Charophyceae
Order: Trochiliscales
Family: Trochiliscaceae
Genera

See text.

Trochiliscaceae is a family of fossil charophyte green algae.[1] It is the only member of the order Trochiliscales.[2] The reproductive structures in Trochiliscaceae (and families placed in Sycidiales by AlgaeBase) have a calcified cover, called a utricle, that is thought to prevent the zygote being desiccated. Other Paleozoic families lack this cover, as do modern charophytes. Fossils of Trochiliscaceae are from the Devonian.[3]

Genera

(As of February 2022), AlgaeBase accepted the following genera.[1]

  • Karpinskya (Croft) Grambast – 2 species
  • Moellerina E.O.Ulrich – 3 species
  • Primochara T.A.Istchenko & Saidakovsky – 2 species
  • Trochiliscus Karpinsky – 7 species

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2024). "Trochiliscaceae". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=179958. 
  2. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2024). "Trochiliscales". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=179955. 
  3. Taylor, T.N.; Taylor, E.L.; Krings, M. (2009), Paleobotany, The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants (2nd ed.), Amsterdam; Boston: Academic Press, pp. 136–137, ISBN 978-0-12-373972-8 

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