Biology:Halysis

From HandWiki
Revision as of 15:33, 17 August 2021 by imported>Importwiki (linkage)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Short description: Extinct genus of algae

Halysis
Temporal range: Mid Ordovician
Scientific classification e
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Stem group: Corallinales
Genus: Halysis
HØeg, 1932
Species
  • H. moniliformis HØeg, 1932 (type)
  • (Bian and Liu, 1999) Riding & BRaga, 2005 H. yui

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

  1. 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