Biology:Dictyophycus
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Short description: Extinct genus of algae
| Dictyophycus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota
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| Division: | Rhodophyta
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| Genus: | Dictyophycus
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| Species: | D. gracilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Dictyophycus gracilis Walcott 1919
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Dictyophycus is a putative red alga of the middle Cambrian Burgess shale.[1] While alive, it formed leaf-like lobes about 25mm across. The fossils do not preserve the leaf-like membrane, so only the sturdier "skeleton" is known; these are usually broken and detached from their holdfast. 308 specimens of Dictyophycus are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.59% of the community.[2]
References
- ↑ Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN 1-56098-659-X, OCLC 231793738
- ↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. Bibcode: 2006Palai..21..451C.
External links
- "Dictyophycus gracilis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=44.
Wikidata ☰ Q5274010 entry
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