On a rare Carboniferous red alga (Urtasimella, Ungdarellaceae) from southwestern Spain

  1. Mamet, Bernard L.
  2. Armendáriz, Maider
  3. Rosales, Idoia
  4. Quesada Ochoa, Cecilio
Journal:
Revista española de micropaleontología

ISSN: 0556-655X

Year of publication: 2010

Volume: 42

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-9

Type: Article

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Abstract

The ungdarellaceans form a prolific group of red algae that have a worldwide distribution and are a major component of shallow-marine carbonates. The rare Urtasimella is encountered in great number at the late Visean Valdemilano section (Pedroches basin, southwestern Spain). The genus remained a nomen nudum for fourteen years, but was recently formally proposed by Chuvashov and Anfimov (2007). It is characterized by a poorly differentiated hypothallus. The Spanish material is composed of numerous Urtasimella parallela (Kulik, 1973) comb. nov., a species recognized by the proliferation of perithallic cells.