... 2006 Springer.S. Xiao and A.J. Kaufman (eds.), Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology, 1–21.2 diversity, in fact, autotrophy, which characterizes the algae and land plants, appears to ... and fungi and a few unicellular groups; 2) the amoebozoans, containing the lobose amoebae (both naked and testate) and the slime molds; 3) the plants, containing the red and green algae (and ... Mesoproterozoic–early Neoproterozoic. And they found possible temporal matches between the evolution of geobiologically important clades (e.g., land plants, fungi, etc.) and geological events (e.g., Neoproterozoic...