On a rare Carboniferous red alga (Urtasimella, Ungdarellaceae) from southwestern Spain
- Mamet, Bernard L.
- Armendáriz, Maider
- Rosales, Idoia
- Quesada Ochoa, Cecilio
ISSN: 0556-655X
Year of publication: 2010
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-9
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de micropaleontología
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.