Tarimochara
| Tarimochara Temporal range:
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| Map of the Earth during the Ordovician period around 465 million years ago | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Charophyta |
| Class: | Charophyceae |
| Genus: | †Tarimochara |
| Species: | †T. miraclensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tarimochara miraclensis Liu, Wu & Riding
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Tarimochara is an extinct genus of algae in the class Charophyceae that lived during the late Ordovician period around 454-449 million years ago in China. This genus contains only one species, Tarimochara micaclensis. It has some key morphological innovations associated with an transition between streptophyte algae and land plants. It lived in shallow marine environments such as carbonate platforms.[1]
References
- ^ Liu, Lijing; Han, Jian; Zhang, Zhifei; Tang, Qing; Pang, Ke; Li, Ruiyun; Wu, Yasheng; Hua, Hong; Guo, Bin; Cai, Chunfang; Riding, Robert (June 2025). "Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations". Nature Plants. 11 (6): 1116–1126. doi:10.1038/s41477-025-02003-y. ISSN 2055-0278.