Isolated algal cysts in the Palaeocene–Lower Eocene of Kurdistan

Volume / Part: 29 / 4
Publication Date: December 1986
Page(s): 739 - 741
Authored By: Graham F. Elliott

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Individual spherical bodies from a richly algal deposit in the Palaeocene-Lower Eocene of Kurdistan are described in detail and interpreted as detached cysts from a dasycladalean alga believed to resemble Halicoryne (Cenozoic-Recent). The fossils are named Sedalanella segonzacae gen. et sp. nov.

Palaeontology - Volume 29 Part 4 Pages 739-741

Palaeontology - Volume 29 Part 4 Pages 739-741

Citations

ELLIOTT, G. F. 1986. Isolated algal cysts in the Palaeocene–Lower Eocene of Kurdistan. Palaeontology, 29, 4, 739–741.