Thallophycoides
Temporal range: Doushantuou
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Total group: Florideophyceae
Genus: †Thallophycoides
Zhang & Yuan, 1992
Species
  • T. phloeatus Zhang & Yuan, 1992

Thallophycoides is an undifferentiated, globular, non-mineralized alga from the Ediacaran period.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 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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