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Protoctista
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| Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Protoctista | |||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 149 | |||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 38 (26%) | |||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 383 - 372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | |||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | L. Margulis. 1996. Archaeal-eubacterialmergers intheoriginofEukarya: Phylogenetic classification of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93:1071-1076 | |||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Apicomplexa phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Archaeoprotista phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Bacillariophyta phylum | listed (PBDB) | Diatoms | 2,113 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant |
| Chrysomonads phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
 Chytridiomycotaphylum | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | Chitridiomycetes | 0 Ma Extant | ||
| Cryptomonads phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Dinomastigota phylum | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 47.8 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Discomitochondrios phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Eustigmatophyta phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Gamophyta phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Granuloreticulosa phylum | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Haptomonads phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Hyphochytriomycota phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Labyrinthulids phylum | listed (PBDB) | Slime Nets | 0 Ma Extant | ||
| Myxomycota phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Oomycota phylum | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Paramyxea phylum | listed (PBDB) | Nesting Cell-forming Parasites | 0 Ma Extant | ||
| Phaeophyta phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Plasmodiophorids phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Xanthophyta phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Zoomastigina phylum | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Rhizopoda superclass | listed (PBDB) | 15 | 383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Xenophyophora unranked clade | listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1976 | Protoctista Andrews p. 8 |
| 1996 | Protoctista Margulis p. 1074 figs. Table 3 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
