Biology:Waputikia
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Short description: Extinct genus of algae
| Waputikia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota
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| Division: | Rhodophyta
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| Class: | Rhodophyceae
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| Genus: | Waputikia
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| Species: | W. ramosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Waputikia Walcott 1919
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Waputikia is a possible red alga of the middle Cambrian Burgess shale.[1] It comprises a main stem about 1 cm across, with the longest recovered fossil 6 cm in length.[1] Branches of a similar diameter emerge from the side of the main branch, then rapidly bifurcate to much finer widths. The fossils are smooth and shiny; no internal structure can be recognised.[1] 10 specimens of Waputikia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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
- "Waputikia ramosa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=131.
Wikidata ☰ Q7968311 entry
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