Margaretia ramosa Resser and Howell 1938 (green algae)

Bryopsidophyceae - Caulerpales - Caulerpaceae

Full reference: C. E. Resser and B. F. Howell. 1938. Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49:195-248

Belongs to Margaretia according to C. E. Resser and B. F. Howell 1938

Sister taxa: Margaretia angustata, Margaretia chamblessi, Margaretia dorus, Margaretia stosei

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM locality 12x, Getz Quarry, which is in a Dyeran marine shale in the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Cambrian of United States (2: Pennsylvania collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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