Thallophyca
Temporal range: Doushantuou
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Stem group: Corallinaceae
Genus: †Thallophyca
Zhang, 1989[1]
Species
  • †T. ramosa Zhang, 1989[1]
  • †T. simplicis Zhang, 1989[1]
  • †T. corrugata Zhang & Yuan, 1992

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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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.


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