Biology:Thallophyca
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Short description: Extinct genus of algae
| Thallophyca Temporal range: Doushantuou
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Corallinales |
| Stem group: | Corallinaceae |
| Genus: | †Thallophyca Zhang, 1989[1] |
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Thallophyca is a non-mineralized Ediacarian alga that probably dwelt on the sea floor. Its thallus is differentiated into a cortex and a medulla.[2] Possible reproductive structures have been identified.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zhang, Yun (1989). "Multicellular thallophytes with differentiated tissues from Late Proterozoic phosphate rocks of South China". Lethaia 22 (2): 113–132. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01674.x.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Xiao, S.; Knoll, A. H.; Yuan, X.; Pueschel, C. M. (2004). "Phosphatized multicellular algae in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early evolution of florideophyte red algae". American Journal of Botany 91 (2): 214–227. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.2.214. PMID 21653378.
Wikidata ☰ Q7709724 entry
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