Diplopora | |
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Fossil of Diplopora annulata from Triassic of Italy | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Ulvophyceae |
Order: | Dasycladales |
Family: | † Diploporaceae |
Genus: | †
Diplopora K.E. Schafhäutl, 1863 |
Diplopora is an extinct genus of marine dasycladacean algae in the family Diploporaceae. [1] [2] [3] [4]
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Silurian to the Jurassic (from about 426.2 to 155.7 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Europe, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Iraq and United States. [5]
Species within this genus include: [5]