Clypeina tibanai, sp. nov. (Polyphysacea, Dasycladales, Chlorophyta), mid-Cretaceous green alga from the Potiguar Basin, Brazilian margin of the young South Atlantic Ocean

Carbonatos do Brasil Project - Petrobras The fossil genus Clypeina (Michelin, 1845) comprises some 40 species. We describe Clypeina tibanai, a new species from ? upper Albian-Cenomanian strata of the Potiguar Basin, Brazil, characterised by closely set verticils of tubular, bended laterals. It is co...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Geologica Acta
Main Authors: Granier, B., Dias-Brito, D., Bucur, I. I.
Other Authors: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Univ Barcelona 2014
Subjects:
Dasycladales
Polyphysaceae
Clypeina
Cladosporate
Cretaceous
Albian
Cenomanian
South Atlantic Ocean
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11449/117385
https://doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2014.12.3.5
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Summary:Carbonatos do Brasil Project - Petrobras The fossil genus Clypeina (Michelin, 1845) comprises some 40 species. We describe Clypeina tibanai, a new species from ? upper Albian-Cenomanian strata of the Potiguar Basin, Brazil, characterised by closely set verticils of tubular, bended laterals. It is compared with Clypeina hanabataensis Yabe & Toyama, 1949, a Late Jurassic species, and with Pseudoactinoporella fragilis (Conrad, 1970), an Early Cretaceous taxon. The new species belongs to a short list of green algae found in the young South Atlantic oceanic corridor, an assemblage defining a phycological paleobioprovince discrete from that of the Tethyan realm.

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