Heydrichia poignantii Woelkerling et al. 2014 (red algae)

Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae

Full reference: W. J. Woelkerling, B. Granier, and D. Dias-Brito. 2014. Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland. Notebooks on Geology 14(7)

Belongs to Heydrichia according to W. J. Woelkerling et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Distribution: found only at Fazenda Paty, Riachuelo Fm, Sergipe Basin, PC0703992 (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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