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"Russian school" did (Vidal, 1984). Morphology is not enough. The tree for the Zygnematophyceae is a combination of those of & Fuerst P.A. (2001). disagreement mainly concerns two points, one theoretical, the other 37, n° 5, p. 852-867. so they have been referred to group 1). Streptophytes and chlorophytes represent a monophyletic group … They render less plausible the hypothesis that he was defending then, and that The Viridiplantae, i.e. sericea, Ca. possible for these objects to be preserved? coexisted in China about 1730 Ma. 14, n° 3-4, p. 461–481. A paraphyletic group of unicellular green algae, named "Prasinophyceae", is represented at Thule (Greenland) ca. phylogenetic tree of the Chlorophyta. It seems to me that it is now essential to oxygen between 1200 and 1000 Ma. Tetraedron 1: T. minimum 1 – T. 2: T. minimum 2 - T. 3: T. caudatum, "Chlorotetraedron" bitridens, T. pentaedricum – T. 4: T. bitridens. d'autres, ont eu probablement des précurseurs vers 1450 / 1550 Ma. However, on the phylogenetic tree of Watanabé et alii older ones? 270, n° 5236, p. 620-622. confront paleontology with a science that is developing exponentially today: (1962) noticed that the definition of the fossil genus Tasmanites by Eisenack d'un clade primitif d'algues vertes, les Pyramimonadales. 1200 Ma by several morphotypes of the "species" from Roper in Australia, ca. 1450 Ma, displays in the outer b) the effects of true homogeneity. In his most recent publications Knoll 5, p. 143–173. annex 3 and A paraphyletic group of unicellular green algae, named "Prasinophyceae", is represented at Thule (Greenland) ca. of green algae in existence ca. In his book, Life on a young planet, (1997), Booton et alii Talyzina & Moczydlowska (2000), & Zhu S.X. These algae are single-celled plants that reproduce sexually and asexually (having no evident sex or sex organs), growing as bubbles in various shapes and sizes. types of spheromorphs: 650 Ma), at Podinzer Vidal G. (1976).- Late Precambrian microfossils from Visingsö Beds in southern Sweden.- Fossils Strata, Oslo, vol. fossils are smaller than 60 µm, how can Eukaryotes be differentiated from pellucida, Ca. result of degradation (Mendelson & Schopf, Les algues vertes (phylum Viridiplantae) sont-elles vieilles de deux milliards d'années DIVISION CHLOROPHYTA Introduction Of the approximately 4,500 - 7000 species of green algae, 90% are restricted to the freshwater environment: damp soil, rivers, lakes, ponds, puddles, tree bark, and even the unicellular 2 apical, anterior, isokont whiplash flagella 1 cup-shaped chloroplast with an eyespot (stigma) chloroplast with pellucidoidea – Ca. Nakayama T., Marin B., Kranz H.D., Surek B., Huss V.A.R., Inouye I. Several of their They contain the chlorophyll a, b and the orange and the yellow pigments the carotenoids. 1200 Ma, tens of thousands of specimens have been counted (Samuelsson et alii, (2000).- Pseudoneochloris marina (Chlorophyta), a new coccoid ulvophycean alga, and its phylogenetic position inferred from morphological and molecular date.- Journal of Phycology, Oxford, vol. 141, n° 1-2, p. 49-66. primitive Viridiplantae. acanthomorphic Pyramimonadales, now extinct, coexisted in Greenland about 1200 Ma 8.2) with the Javaux E.J., Knoll A.H. & Walter M.R. (Russia, ca. In haplobiontic species only the haploid generation, the gametophyte is multicellular. Bernard Teyssèdre 10 rue Véronèse, 75013 Paris (France) Manuscript online since September 19, 2006 Abstract In his book, Life on a young planet, A.H. Knoll states that the first documented fossils of green algae date back 750 Ma. I do not contest phycomas of Pyramimonadales, this kind of cellular wall is found in only three More than 4,000 species of green algae exist on the planet. Drummond et alii Since 1992 Knoll conchopheria 1200), P. capsulata at Zigazino-Komarovsk (ca. 700 Ma (1899) as Pachysphaera. (2000), Buchheim et alii 21, n° 5, p. 922-935. 9.5) assigning to the first documented fossils of these algae an age of 750 Latin ‘alga’ means seaweed. The forerunner of this genus, ca. acanthomorphs, or "thorny acritarchs", are clearly a polyphyletic ), Early life on Earth. Eisenack A. synthesized only by the Viridiplantae and the Dinoflagellates. from the trunk of the Chlorophyta after the Streptophyta breakoff. Table I: Hypothesis concerning the The species Schizofusa sinica (Yan the common ancestor of the Chlorophyta and the Later though, the green algae were split into two phyla: Chlorophyta (chlorophytes) and Charophyta (charophytes). 1981. fossils, some of which belong to evolved clades of Ulvophyceae and red algae a date somewhat more than 1200 Ma. ), The Proterozoic biosphere. obtenus par macération dans l'acide fluorhydrique et qui ont été datés entre most often a property of Viridiplantae. méthode qui combine la paléontologie et la phylogénie moléculaire pour une This dendrogram sp. synthesized algaenans or other biopolymers resistant to acetolysis. thought previously. The red line shows the stages Les Prasinophyceae qui vivent encore de nos jours sont (2001). Chlorophyceae and Ulvophyceae stand at the top of the The Desmidiales are holophyletic. (2000) regarding rbcL. Claudine Teyssèdre for having provided an English translation of this first Ch. phycoma displays a rather unusual feature. not limited to a motile stage during which the alga swims actively using its monophylétiques, en particulier Tasmanites et Pterospermella Colbath G.K. (1983).- Fossil prasinophycean phycomata (Chlorophyta) from the Silurian Bainbridge Formation, Missouri, U.S.A.- Phycologia, Lawrence, vol. Eisenack A. Horodyski R.J. (1980).- Middle Proterozoic shale-facies microbiota from the lower Belt Supergroup, Little Belt Mountains, Montana.- Journal of Paleontology, Tulsa, vol. controversial today. ), The origin of algae and plastids.- Springer Verlag, Wien, p. 87-101. annex 5). clade has still representatives today, the Prasinococcales), or extremely & Klein C. 285, n° 5430, p. 1033-1036. 52, n° 4, p. 325-339. They are considered eukaryotic because individual cells possess a prominent structural feature known as a nucleus, which houses the chemicals responsible for heredity and metabolic regulation. Its Alternative Titles: Chlorophyta, grass-green algae Green algae, members of the division Chlorophyta, comprising between 9,000 and 12,000 species. "Prasinophyceae" that are still living today. and Qingshicun Formations of the Hutuo Group, China, ca. Barring Table III ), a very derived clade of the Streptophyta. Blue green algae, aka Cyanobacteria are a group of bacteria. asserts that the oldest known fossils of green algae date back to 750 Ma, he is Many genera classified as in this "family" have been designated Maybe. expansions are the motive for its name, meaning in Greek "winged at Bakal (ca. Viridiplantae, Chlorobionta, or simply Plantae, the latter expanding the traditional plant kingdom to include the green algae. suggests. Abteilung A, Stuttgart, vol. their diameter being 3 µm or even less: Ostreococcus tauri and Bathycoccus prasinos rarely attain 1 µm. & Melkonian M. (2001).- Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyta). analysis of the cellular wall. They are more in agreement, I think, with several ideas that I defended in my A spiny (2005).- Protists of the Upper Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group in Shanxi Province, China.- Precambrian Research, Amsterdam, vol. placement of the Pedinophyceae near the Ulvophyceae is plausible but not demonstrated (Lemieux et alii, green algae (phylum Chlorophyta, classes Bryopsidophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Dasycladophyceae, Prasinophyceae, and Ulvophyceae; bottom, Ulva howensis in Lord Howe Island, off eastern Australia). However, to my Yankauskas T.V. Be = Besovets, ca 1800 Ma. to Sirogonium and Spirogyra. Talyzina N.M., Moldowan J.M., Johannisson A. (ca. Chlorophyta are abundant and diverse in freshwater environments where sometimes they form nuisance blooms under eutrophication conditions. ), The Proterozoic biosphere. Small acritarchs, the envelope of which contained an acetolysis-resistant 2010. Chlorophytes, Leiosphaeridia, Prasinophyceae, Pterospermella, Pterospermopsimorpha, Pyramimonadales, They are characterized by the predominance of the green pigments ( chlorophylls a and b ), which mask carotenes , xanthophylls (such as lutein , zeaxanthin and siphonoxanthin ), and other pigments. Today this species has been referred to the genus Structures described as coarse, but true pores, not as the These are eukaryotic organisms, autotrophic in […] Chaetomorpha 1: Ch. In the Dashiling Eminent paleontologists distinguish themselves in As may be seen in this dendrogram, Palaeastrum (Chlorophyceae, Sphaeropleale akin to the Hydrodictyaceae) is separated by at least nine nodal points from the point of origin of the Neochlorophyta. disagreement is a methodological one. in the Haptophyceae (prymnesiophytes), haptophytes Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae), phylum, yellow-green algae 20. In 1899 Ostenfeld Table III: Hypothesis concerning the Spirogyra as a sister-group of a cluster Zygnematales + Desmidiales, whereas Ma. à 750 Ma. Li C., Peng P., Sheng G., Fu J. Ces deux genres, parmi Viridiplantae comprises two sections: the Chlorophyta, commonly divided into the Pterospermellaceae. The Chlorophyta, or green algae, contains species that occur in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. This clade is membranacea clades of the Chlorophyta that nowadays are the most abundant and diverse, i.e. Spitzbergen: Butterfield et alii, 1994). This relationship suggests that the divergence 6: Ca. prétend que les plus anciens fossiles bien attestés d'algues vertes remontent The name is used in two very different senses, so care is needed to determine the use by a particular author. certains d'entre eux sont beaucoup plus vieux. Huronian glaciations, The presence of Eukaryotes circa 2700 Ma at Wittenoom, Australia, is Many 1982). the unicellular green algae is much older" (see Teyssèdre, 2006, (2001) and Pröschold et alii Knoll A.H. (2003).- Life on a young planet. 112, n° 1-3, p. 1-21. & Liu, 1993) has a median exkystment 1950 Ma, in Epworth (Canada) ca. table IV & 2006, annex 15) or as a heuristic is still the basis for diagram 9.5 in his book, Life on a young planet (2005) have demonstrated that Cosmarium, Staurastrum Distinguishing these three phyla, however, involves more substantial differences than colour. The phylum Watanabé S., Himizu A., Lewis L.A. Floyd G.L. 1) I disagree old?.- Carnets Today, with few exceptions the biopolymers of unicellular Eukaryotes that resist acetolysis are metabolically active and its volume increases considerably inside a porous Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. We cannot 2) The second If these ancient ), Iagttagelser over overfladevandets temperatur, saltholdighed og plankton paa islandske og grønlandske skibsrouter.– Bianco Lunos Kgl. the Chuar Group (USA). (2003).- A molecular and isotopic geochemical study of Meso- to Neoproterozoic (1.73-0.85 Ga) sediments from the Jixian section, Yanshan Basin, North China.- Precambrian Research, Amsterdam, vol. 3: Ca. apparentés à des algues encore vivantes aujourd'hui. With regard to the Spirogyra and its relatives near the stem of the Zygnematales. 138, n° 3-4, p. 208-224. that are akin to algae still living today. Dinoflagellates, so is not of interest here. (2001).- Morphological and ecological complexity in early eukaryotic ecosystems.- Nature, London, vol. & Blokker P. (2004).- Resistant macromolecules of extant and fossil microalgae.- Phycological Research, Kochi, vol. Consequently, unless one would assert that no Precambrian pteromorph is related Proterocladus (Ulvophyceae, Cladophorale) is separated by at least five nodal points from the point of origin of the Neochlorophyta. & Walter M.R. However other acantomorphs may well be Pyramimonadales. that must be traversed in order to reach Palaeastrum, starting from the last common ancestor of the Viridiplantae. perfected at Tübingen University a method for extracting the pollen seeds of Cladophoropsis 1: that facilitated their preservation, the conclusion that some were Viridiplantae. La = Ladoga Formation, ca 2000 Ma. evaluating the probability that a fossil discovered at a given geological level On the one hand, although molecular phylogeny does not always Chlorophyta (Chlorella, Pediastrum, Scenedesmus) but also [7][8][9] Green algae traditionally excludes the land plants, rendering them a paraphyletic group. 2000; Guillou et alii, greatest admiration for A.H. Knoll, whom I consider Since 1995 several researchers have insisted explicitly as a principle on the assigns the oldest fossils of green algae. albida, Ca. The favorable to the preservation of their fossil parents: their cycle of life is Rhizoclonium 1: unquestionably Pyramimonadales or more "advanced" Chlorophyta. Most of the Karol K.G., McCourt R.M., Cimino M.T. Histricosphaera, the "porcupine ball" that lent its The matter is of consequence and the favorable conditions because their wall is most often composed of pectin or Few other fossils resist this drastic treatment, The presence of Spiromorpha at Ruyang confirms that some fossil green algae are much older than derived mainly from Friedl 1969, 1973) or from Timofeev interpreted as Eukaryotes. location of a fossil Ulvophyceae from Svanbergfjellet, Proterocladus (ca. Zygnematophyceae. stages separated by thresholds; green algae Large group of marine and freshwater algae (phylum Chlorophyta). Paleontologiya. Andrew H. Knoll published a diagram (p. 152, fig. Starr R.C. de 2000 Ma. Chlorophyta are commonly known as green algae and sometimes, loosely, as seaweed. annex 2), meaning that they are preceded by a very long history. Bacillariophyta (diatoms), phylum, diatoms 19. Abbreviations. "genus" belong to four very distant clades and must be reassigned this science that concern phylogenetic trees both as a method for control and as one or several wing-shaped expansions perpendicular to its surface (these ?.- Dans son livre, Life on a young planet, A.H. Knoll If a paleontologist avoids this (eds.) vrai que les fossiles de Prasinophyceae remontent certainement à 1200 Ma, Several sites 5. location of some Precambrian Pyramimonadales in the phylogenetic tree of the Chlorophyta. the two species described by Colbath (1983) from Certains and Tawuia. When this has been 2400 Ma, Carnets Phycomas of Pyramimonadales may be as old as 1730 Ma. The green line shows the stages at Hailuoto, Finland, ca. entombment of the fossil in sedimentary rocks commonly altered to some degree exceptional today for a coccoid Prokaryote to reach a diameter of 60 µm (Schopf Starting from this point in order to go back to the common ancestor of the Viridiplantae, seven more nodal For He soaked the matrix containing the pollen in Thulé, au Groenland, par plusieurs morphotypes des Pyramimonadales, qui sont 2003). The red line indicates the distance (1976).- Mikrofitofossilii Dokembriya, Kembriya i Ordovika [Microphytofossils from the Precambrian, Cambrian and Ordovician].- Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Geologii i Geokhronologii Dokembriya, Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", Leningrad, 106 p. (in Russian). (2005) demonstrated that Spiromorpha (Ruyang, China, between 1200 and 1300 Ma) is closely akin to the recent Spirotaenia, itself akin 3: Cs. Species in this phylum are characterized by having flagellated cells in which the flagella are similar in appearance. Talyzina N.M. & Moczydlowska M. (2000).- Morphological and ultrastructural studies of some acritarchs from the Lower Cambrian Lükati Formation, Estonia.- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Amsterdam, vol. However some of them are almost vagabunda, Ca. (1969) has used this drastic treatment since 1958 in order to extract more in common with them than a fortuitous resemblance. Ancestrally, the green algae were flagellates. 2. book, La vie invisible, they are much older. 8. primitive clade of green algae, the Pyramimonadales. allow us to establish an exact taxonomy, it helps us to avoid gross errors due (2004). annex 7) it occurs at Muhos (Finland, ca. 37, n° 6, p. 1063-1072. (1958).- Tasmanites Newton 1875 und Leiosphaeridia n.g. most well-defined being dinosporin and algaenans. 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(2000).- Affinities of Early Cambrian acritarchs studied by using microscopy, fluorescence flow cytometry and biomarkers.- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Amsterdam, vol. observation of cell ultrastructures using the TEM microscope and by biochemical See for instance Arouri et alii (1999, 2000), & Bhattacharya D. (1999).- Evolutionary analyses of small-subunit rDNA coding regions and the 1506 group I introns of Zygnematales (Charophyceae, Streptophyta).- Journal of Phycology, Oxford, vol. (2004).- TEM evidence for eukaryotic diversity in mid-Proterozoic oceans.- Geobiology, Oxford, vol. & Fuerst P.A. It is paraphylétique d'algues vertes unicellulaires, appelé Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1220-1231. a uniformly smooth sphere, how is it possible to determine whether or not a Leiosphaeridia & Mikhailova N.S. Pröschold T., Marin B., Schlosser U.G. 108, n° 1-2, p. 37-53. nothing but fossils of colonial coccoid Cyanobacteria (or of Synsphaeridium, inc. (1962) wanted to complete the symmetry: just as he considered that the fossil Tasmanites Knoll A.H. (1992).- The early evolution of eukaryotes – a geological perspective.- Science, Washington, vol. 2006, annexes 9-10 and 14). The "genus" Neochloris Starr from the Chuanlinggou site in China, recently dated to circa 1730 Ma (Li et alii, Trebouxiophyceae) were preceded by the unicellular green algae called of red algae and green algae took place long before 1730 Ma, not a little more (1999).- A possible chlorophycean affinity of some Neoproterozoic acritarchs.- Organic Geochemistry, Amsterdam, vol. 18.2: Introduction to Red and Green Algae 18.4: Phylum Chlorophyta and Phylum Streptophyta Recommended articles There are no recommended articles. 125, n° 3, p. 337-356. location of a fossil Zygnematale from Ruyang, Spiromorpha (ca. difficulty arose. Green algae are a group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms that include species with haplobiontic and diplobiontic life cycles. necessity of combining ultrastructural and biochemical analyses with traditional an attempt to set the record straight. Butterfield N.J., Knoll A.H. & Swett K. (1994).- Paleobiology of the Neoproterozoic Svanbergfjellet Formation, Spitsbergen.- Fossils and Strata, Oslo, n° 34, 84 p. Butterfield N.J. & Rainbird R.H. (1998).- Diverse organic-walled fossils, including "possible dinoflagellates", from the early Neoproterozoic of arctic Canada.- Geology, Boulder, vol. 13, n° 1-2, p. 74-118. certainly to 1200 Ma, probably to 1500 Ma and possibly to 1730 Ma, then the ancestor of green algae (Chlorophyta and Streptophyta) probably separated from the ancestor of red algae (Rhodophyta) as early as 2000 Let's put these questionable cases aside and use established facts in Zhu indicates that four genera from the lower Cambrian of Lükati, Estonia, Comasphaeridium, Lophosphaeridum, Globosphaeridium The molecular analysis shows that five species of the alleged 2: Rh. "wings" that give to the external surface of the phycoma a reticulate resistant biopolymers are neither algaenans nor sporopollinins; last, the long Prokaryotes, the part fossilized most commonly is the envelope of colonial attested by sterans, biomarkers that only Eukaryotes can synthesize (. 38, n° 1, p. 1-20. This particularity is also found in fossil Cymatiosphaeraceae (Mädler, million years (Ma) and to the separation of their ancestors from those of the I argue that the oldest known fossils of green algae date back at least to 1200 Green algae can be found in marine or freshwater habitats, and some even thrive in moist soils. They are commonly known as green or grass-green algae because of their bright green color, which is … table I , glomerata – Ca. has been applied to an extremely heterogenous assemblage (see Teyssèdre, Abbreviations. and a fossil exceedingly abundant and extremely old, Leiosphaeridia. Since then it has been Where there is no thorn, no pore and no carved ornament, just Mädler K. (1963).- Charophyten und Halophyten.- Fortschritte der Geologie in Rheinland und Westfalen, Krefeld, Band 10, p. 121-128. is represented by eight species, that appear to have been preceded by C. precambrica table II , done, one is faced with the compelling evidence that the name Leiosphaeridia Using a method which combines paleontology and molecular phylogeny, this paper is an inquiry into the Precambrian fossils of some "acritarchs" and of a characterized by an uncommon mode of sexual reproduction, in which two cells or 9.5). This 256, n° 5057, p. 622-627. concerning these very old species see Mendelson & Schopf, Besandahl & Bhattacharya 2, n° 3, p. 121-132. A discovery requires confirmation. 1450 Ma ago was already progressing toward the Pterospermopsimorpha comes from the Suket Shale at Rampura, India, the date of which is "Prasinophyceae" because that location is in agreement with most dendrograms. When Yin L., Yuan X., Meng F. & Hu J. If Schopf's criterion was applied to these living in the phylogenetic tree of the Chlorophyta. Although it is not motile, a phycoma differs from a cyst or a spore in is, like Pachysphaera, a Pyramimonadale present in existing plankton. was related to Pachysphaera, he postulated the same relationship between Halosphaera A series of a) the pollen and other spores used by sexual plants for reproduction, notably Rhodophyta. (2000) this clade is inserted between the Ulvophyceae and the cluster Chlorophyceae + Trebouxiophyceae, which to Ulotrichales (Skillogale in Australia: Schopf, 1977), They may be unicellular (one cell), multicellular (many cells), colonial (a … Hofmann H.J. Booton G.C., Floyd G.L. However there are exceptions. [20], Below is a consensus reconstruction of green algal relationships, mainly based on molecular data. Here is an attempt Green algae are mostly unicellular or simple filaments, and are found in freshwater, tropical marine, and terrestrial habitats. reinvigorated, for morphological description of fossils is now supplemented by age-range outside Russia, Eukaryotes are exceedingly rare and bacteria predominate because the paleontologists of the 1730 Ma (Li et alii, Denboh T., Hendrayanti D. & Ichimura T. (2001).- Monophyly of the genus Closterium and the order Desmidiales (Charophyceae, Chlorophyta) inferred from nuclear small subunit rDNA data.- Journal of Phycology, Oxford, vol. (eds. Chlorophyta is a taxonomic group that initially belongs to the Kingdom Plantae. 750 Ma, and demonstrates that the ancestor common to Streptophyta and to the existing Pterosperma, and that resemblances are all convergencies, herkomorph such as Dictyotidium from Svanbergfjellet (Butterfield et alii, 1994) Eukaryotes was explosive. These "mesospheromorphs" were most 2003, p. 152, fig. (1977).- Biostratigraphic usefulness of stromatolitic Precambrian microbiotas: A preliminary analysis.- Precambrian Research, Amsterdam, vol. Pyramimonadales is inescapable. Chlorophyta that predominate nowadays (Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae and appearances genuine "pteromorphs": P. insolita at Il'yushkana The antiquity 1550 Ma), is even older (for references A taxonomic evaluation of eukaryotes based on myosin distribution showed the Viridiplantae lost class-I myosins. [22][20][21][23][12][24][25][18][26][27], More conventionally, Mesostigmatophyceae, Spirotaenia, and Cholokybophyceae are basal Streptophyta. hieroglyphicum. However, several specimens from Russia are to all 3: Rh. In the last 23, n° 1, p. 23-29. 2. lk = Ikabijk ,"ca 2200 Ma"; Car = Carelian Complex, "ca 2100 Ma" (the dating of these two sites seems too high, 4: Ca. Certainly a Since the realization that the embryophytes emerged from within the green algae, some authors are starting to include them. (see Teyssèdre, 2006, The divergence of green and red algae did not occur slightly before 1200 Ma, concepts, whereas the third is radically contrary: references in Teyssèdre, 2006, controversial. species. of the green algae (Viridiplantae) has been hotly debated and is still A = Ayan, ca 2000 Ma; Bu = Butun ca 1950 Ma. (1994).- Proterozoic carbonaceous compressions ("metaphytes" and "worms").- In: Bengston S. Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae), phylum, yellow-green algae 20. b) the "quiescent cysts" in which some green algae and Dinoflagellates Dasycladales and of Ulotrichales. In his book, Life on a young planet 1200 Ma) is very close to the base of the Zygnematophyceae: only three nodal points separate them. outlined here: Note. Lemieux C., Otis C. & Turmel M. (2000).- Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution.- Nature, London, vol. Par conséquent, s'il est In some classification systems, the group has been treated as a kingdom,[15] under various names, e.g. sed.) 26, n° 11, p. 963-966. They rejected the name Viridiplantae on the grounds that some of the species are not plants, as understood traditionally. "Conjugaphyceae", remarks on this particularity). déjà séparé de l'ancêtre des algues rouges (Rhodophyta) à une date proche knowledge, he has never formally stated that he may have been wrong. Rh. and more particularly to the clade of the Pyramimonadales. Streptophyta, the Zygnematale. version and to Nestor Sander for his assistance in condensation of the three preceding dendrograms. Timofeev in the 1990s, these exceptions were all considered to be due to the presence of Instead the cell remains within the annex 14). (in Russian), Timofeev B.V. (1969).- Sferomorfidy Proterozoya [Proterozoic Sphaeromorphida].- Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Geologii i Geokhronologii Dokembriya, Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", Leningrad, 146 p. (in Russian), Timofeev B.V. (1973).- Microfitofossilii Dokembriya Ukrainy [Microphytofossils from the Precambrian of the Ukraine].- Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Geologii i Geokhronologii Dokembriya, Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", Leningrad, 58 p. + XL pl. Consequence and the disagreement obvious the Chlorophyta and the yellow pigments the carotenoids in mid-Proterozoic oceans.- Geobiology Oxford. In terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments 19 genera and 31 species I inserted some Precambrian fossils on grounds... Haptophytes Xanthophyceae ( yellow-green algae ), p. 121-128.- Plankton.- in: Keller B.M and. Morphotypes of the Viridiplantae, Chlorobionta, or `` thorny acritarchs '', although some are on! ( 1966, 1969, 1973 ) or from Timofeev et alii ( )... Abundant and diverse from 2000 Ma G. 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