Diplopora

{{Short description|Extinct genus of algae}}

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| image = Diploporaceae - Diplopora annulata.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Diplopora annulata from Triassic of Italy

| fossil_range = SilurianJurassic {{fossilrange|426.2|155.7}}

| taxon = Diplopora

| authority = K.E. Schafhäutl, 1863

}}

Diplopora is an extinct genus of marine dasycladacean algae in the family Diploporaceae.[https://www.gbif.org/species/3229658 GBIF]{{cite book|last1=Orr|first1=Elizabeth L.|last2=Orr|first2=William N.|title=Oregon fossils|date=2009|publisher=Oregon State University Press|location=Corvallis|isbn=9780870715730|edition=2nd|pages=7–8}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cas.umt.edu/paleontology/browse.cfm?field=taxonname&value=Diplopora%20oregonensis |title=The University of Montana Paleontology Center|accessdate=23 November 2014}}{{cite journal |author1=Erik Flügel |author2=Baba Senowbari-Daryan |author3=George D. Stanley, Jr. |year=1989 |title=Late Triassic dasycladacean alga from northeastern Oregon: significance of first reported occurrence in western North America |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=374–381 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000019545 |jstor=1305509|s2cid=130316730 }}

Fossil records

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.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54813 Paleobiology Database]

Species

Species within this genus include:

References

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Category:Ulvophyceae

Category:Prehistoric plant genera

Category:Triassic plants

Category:Fossil algae

Category:Silurian first appearances

Category:Jurassic extinctions

Category:Prehistoric plants of North America

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