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Acicularia cutchensis

Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales

Taxonomy
Acicularia cutchensis was named by Pal and Gangopadhyaya (1970). It is not extant. Its type locality is Jura, 25km N of Bhuj, which is in a Cretaceous fluvial horizon in the Chari Formation of India.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Acicularia cutchensis Pal and Gangopadhyaya
1976Acicularia cutchensis Lakhanpal et al.

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RankNameAuthor
—Life
—Eukaryota()
—Archaeplastida
—Chloroplastida
phylumChlorophytaReichenbach 1834
RankNameAuthor
classChlorophyceaeKützing 1843
orderDasycladalesKützing 1860
genusAciculariad'Archiac 1843
speciescutchensisPal and Gangopadhyaya 1970

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.

†Acicularia cutchensis Pal and Gangopadhyaya 1970
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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: Late/Upper Cretaceous or 100.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0India (Gujarat) Acicularia cutchensis (type locality: 224616)