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Calcipatera cottonwoodensis
Calcipatera cottonwoodensis A.M. Torres, R. R. West, Sawin J. Paleontol., 66(4): 679. Jul 1992
- Name
- Calcipatera cottonwoodensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Calcipatera
- Authors (Pub.)
- Torres A. M.
West R. R.
Sawin R. S.
- Publication
- Calcipatera cottonwoodensis, a new membranous Late Paleozoic calcareous Alga [1992/7]
- Journal
- Journal of Paleontology
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 679
- Year
- 1992
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Calcipatera
- Fossil Status
- thallus (calcareous)
- Stratigraphy
- Asselian
- Strat. comment
- Wolfcampian
- Location
- Greenwood County, Kansas, at the roadcut on the north side of U.S. Hwy 54, 0.5 km east of the Butler County line, Kansas, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- Repository Number
- KUMIP 263621
- Diagnosis
- Thallus membranous, calcified, obconical, forming an angle of 15-60 degrees with substrate, often lobed and wavy at upper edges; vertical folds of membrane with increasing complexity as individual thalli expanded upward; central base tapered toward substrate suggesting an original holdfast or rhizoids; membrane differentiated internally into a variably preserved bilateral outer cortex of closely appressed, discrete, parallel calcite packets or utricular molds oriented perpendicular to surface of thallus; central medulla most commonly infilled with mosaic sparry calcite, rarely having irregular, branching, loosely woven filaments oriented lengthwise, parallel to surface of thallus; reproductive structures not observed.
