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seaweed
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Taxonomy
Alga
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Dasycladales
Family: Dasycladaceae
Genus: Goniolina
Species: Goniolina hexagona
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Kimmeridgian
Stratigraphy
"Pointe du Chay" Formation
Provenance
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Diameter: 1 cm
Location
Angoulins sur Mer
Charentes-Maritimes
Aquitaine
France
Comments
Alga which present a very regular honeycomb pattern that fix itself on limestone or shells. This one is fixed on a gasteropod shell.
The actual alga of the same family is of the Genus Bornetella.
Lit.:
Antonietta Cherchi Cagliari, Rolf Schroeder (1993): Nouvelles observations sur Goniolina hexagona d’Orbigny Algue Dasycladale du Kimméridgien. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 67, Issue 3-4, pp 239–244
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