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Ecologic significance of post-Palaeozoic green calcareous algae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Graham F. Elliott
Graham F. Elliott
Affiliation:
Dept of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
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Summary

The palaeoecologic significance of post-Palaeozoic green calcareous algae is evaluated with what is known of the environments of comparable living algae. Here requirements and tolerances of temperature, bottomsediment, salinity and water-energy may be observed; depth is apparently significant only as it influences these. In the extinct algae, only a minority show clear taxonomic relationship to living algae, in palaeo-environmentsdeduced from independent evidence. Codiaceae and Dasycladales seem to have had environmental preferences like their living descendants, with preferredmicroenvironments in some genera.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 115 , Issue 6 , November 1978 , pp. 437 - 442
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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