Biology:Halysis
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Short description: Extinct genus of algae
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Stem group: | Corallinales |
| Genus: | †Halysis HØeg, 1932 |
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Halysis is a genus of red alga thought to fall in the coralline stem group. It has only been recovered in thin sections, and thus is only known in two dimensions; however, an interpretation as a sheet of cells rather than a sheet of tubes or a single row of cells is the most plausible.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Riding, R.; Braga, J. C. (2005). "Halysis Høeg, 1932 — An Ordovician coralline red alga?". Journal of Paleontology 79 (5): 835. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079[0835:HHAOCR2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0022-3360.
Wikidata ☰ Q5643804 entry
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