Biology:Miaohephyton
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Short description: Species of alga
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Scientific classification 
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| Genus: | †Miaohephyton Chen, 1991 emend. Steiner, 1994 |
| Species: | †M. bifurcatum
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| †Miaohephyton bifurcatum Chen, 1991 emend. Steiner, 1994[1]
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Miaohephyton is a carbonaceous compression fossil of a thalloid organism that has been interpreted as a brown alga.[1] Its Neoproterozoic age (600 to 550 million years ago) is incompatible with molecular clocks that estimate the divergence of the brown algae around 300 million years ago, leading to suggestions that its "brown algal" features are the result of convergence.[2]
The organism grew both by apical growth (leading to bifurcation) and intercalary growth (increasing the distances between nodes).[1] Some specimens are smooth, whereas others bear rounded structures that are interpreted as conceptacles.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Xiao, Shuhai; Knoll, Andrew H.; Yuan, Xunlai (1998). "Morphological reconstruction of Miaohephyton bifurcatum, a possible brown alga from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo formation, South China". Journal of Paleontology 72 (6): 1072–1086. doi:10.1017/s0022336000027414. Bibcode: 1998JPal...72.1072X.
- ↑ Brown, Joseph W.; Sorhannus, Ulf (2010). "A molecular genetic timescale for the diversification of autotrophic stramenopiles (Ochrophyta): substantive underestimation of putative fossil ages". PLOS ONE 5 (9): e12759. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012759. PMID 20862282. Bibcode: 2010PLoSO...512759B.
Wikidata ☰ Q6827730 entry
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