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Mesophyllum mengaudii

Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae

Taxonomy
Lithophyllum mengaudi was named by Lemoine (1934). It is extant.

It was recombined as Mesophyllum mengaudii by Aguirre et al. (2011) and Hrabovsky et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1934Lithophyllum mengaudi Lemoine
2011Mesophyllum mengaudii Aguirre et al.
2021Mesophyllum mengaudii Hrabovsky et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomRhodoplantaeSaunders and Hommersand 2004
phylumRhodophytaWettstein 1922
subphylumEurhodophytina
classFlorideophyceaeCronquist 1960
RankNameAuthor
familyCorallinophycidae()
orderHapalidialesNelson and Sutherland 2015
familyMesophyllaceaeAthanasiadis 2016
genusMesophyllumLemoine 1930
speciesmengaudii(Lemoine 1934)

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.

Mesophyllum mengaudii Lemoine 1934
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Middle Eocene or 58.70000 to 37.71000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0France Lithophyllum mengaudi (149308 149331)
Paleocene - Ypresian66.0 - 47.8Slovakia (Zilina Region) Lithophyllum mengaudi (237466)
Paleocene - Middle Eocene66.0 - 37.71Greece Lithophyllum mengaudi (143456)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Slovakia Lithophyllum mengaudi (88274)
Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene58.7 - 48.6Poland (Malopolskie) Lithophyllum mengaudi (216226)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Spain Lithophyllum mengaudi, Mesophyllum mengaudii (138288)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene47.8 - 33.9Greece Lithophyllum mengaudi (143318)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Slovakia (Presov) Mesophyllum mengaudii (222537)
Priabonian - Rupelian38.0 - 28.1Armenia Mesophyllum mengaudii (214574)