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Rhodophyta, Red algae

phylum Rhodophyta

A member of so-called Calcareous algae

• Modern species: Cambrian - Present (516.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Plantae

• Distribution
• Carboniferous: Yamaguchi
• Carboniferous-Permian: Fukui
• Permian: Hiroshima
• Jurassic: Tokyo
• Cretaceous: Saitama
• Eocene: Ehime
• Miocene: Saitama, Shizuoka, Gifu, Yamaguchi
• Pleistocene: Ishikawa

• Subataxa
• Archaeolithothamnium, genus
• Corallina, genus
• Gymnocodium japonicum
• Jania, genus
• Lithophyllum, genus
• Mesophyllum, genus
• Nipponophycus, genus
• Parachaetetes, genus
• Petrophyton miyakoense
• Pycnoporidium, genus
• Solenopora, genus