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Maimonachaetetes hispanicus
Maimonachaetetes hispanicus P. Cózar, Vachard Geobios (Lyon), 39(6): 794. 22 Dec 2006
- Name
- Maimonachaetetes hispanicus
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- hispanica
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Maimonachaetetes
- Authors (Pub.)
- Cózar P.
Vachard D.
- Publication
- A new Mississippian red alga from south-western Spain [2006/12]
- Journal
- Geobios
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 6
- Page number
- 794
- Year
- 2006
- Fossil Status
- thallus (calcareous)
- Stratigraphy
- Visean
- Location
- Navafria section, Los Santos de Maimona Basin, Spain
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Iberica)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Palaeontology, Madrid, Spain
- Repository Number
- Sample NA2/1
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Palaeontology, Madrid, Spain
- Repository Number
- Twenty rock samples of variable preservation
were collected in the stratum typicum. Samples contain thousands
of specimens. Forty thin-sections NA2/1,
NA1/1, NA/R, SS3G, and from PC2615 to PC2632.
- Diagnosis
- Non-geniculate, coaxial dimerous thallus composed
of medullar and ventral cortical elongate cells and subquadratic
dorsal cortical cells. Cell fusion localized between
the dorsal and ventral cortex.
