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Macroporella verticillata

Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae

Taxonomy
Macroporella verticillata was named by Pia (1940). Its type specimen is USNM 118143 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 2964, 10 miles NW of Kent, Delaware Mountains, which is in a Roadian/Capitanian slope limestone in the Delaware Mountain Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. alpina, M. espichelensis, M. maxima, M. selli, M. sellii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Macroporella verticillata Pia

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RankNameAuthor
—Life
—Eukaryota()
—Archaeplastida
—Chloroplastida
phylumChlorophytaReichenbach 1834
RankNameAuthor
classChlorophyceaeKützing 1843
orderDasycladalesKützing 1860
familyDasycladaceaeKutzing 1843
genusMacroporellaPia 1912
speciesverticillataPia 1940

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Architecture: porouso
Environment: coastal, inner shelf, oligotrophic, hypersaline, marine, brackisho
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yesp
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: "photoautotroph"o
Created: 2006-07-05 08:29:01
Modified: 2007-10-05 06:09:29
Source: o = order, p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Roadian to the top of the Capitanian or 272.30000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Roadian - Capitanian272.3 - 259.51USA (Texas) Guadalupia sp. (type locality: 108829)