Phylum

Chlorophyta Reichenbach, 1828

green algae

Selection of related publications

Skompski, S., Kozłowska, A., Kozłowski, W., Łuczyński, P. 2023. Coexistence of algae and a graptolite-like problematicum: a case study from the late Silurian of Podolia (Ukraine). Acta Geologica Polonica 73, 2, 115–133. DOI:10.24425/agp.2022.143599

Kröger, B., Tinn, O., Rikkinen, J., Jolis, E. M., Butcher, A. R., Toom, U., Hints, O. 2023. Noncalcified dasyclad algae from the Vasalemma Formation, late Sandbian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 318, 104970. DOI:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104970

Vachard, D., Bucur, I. I., Munnecke, A. 2022. Vitinellopsis nov. gen., a new calcareous alga (Chlorophyta, Bryopsidales) from the Silurian of Gotland (Sweden), and the tribe Vitinelleae nov. nom. Geobios 70, 75-85. DOI:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.10.001

Mastik, V. 2019. Silurian noncalcified macroscopic algal fossils from the Kalana Lagerstätte, Estonia. Dissertationes Geologicae Universitatis Tartuensis 43, 1-91. University of Tartu Press.

Golubkova, E. Y., Kushim, E. A., Kuznetsov, A. B., Yanovskii, A. S., Maslov, A. V., Shvedov, S. D., Plotkina, Y. V. 2018. Redkinian Biota of Macroscopic Fossils from the Northwestern East European Platform (South Ladoga Region). Geology 479, 1, 300-304. DOI:10.1134/S1028334X18030169

Mastik, V., Tinn, O. 2017. Leveilleites hartnageli Foerste, 1923 (Rhodophyta?) from the Ordovician of Laurentia and Silurian of Baltica: Redescription and designation of a neotype. Palaeoworld 26, 4, 602-611. DOI:10.1016/j.palwor.2017.04.002

Tinn, O., Mastik, V., Ainsaar, L., Meidla, T. 2015. Kalania pusilla, an exceptionally preserved non-calcified alga from the lower Silurian (Aeronian, Llandovery) of Estonia. Palaeoworld 24, 1-2, 207-214. DOI:10.1016/j.palwor.2014.12.001

Mastik, V., Tinn, O. 2015. New dasycladalean algal species from the Kalana Lagerstätte (Silurian, Estonia). Journal of Paleontology 89, 2, 262-268. DOI:10.1017/jpa.2014.23

Tinn, O., Meidla, T., Ainsaar, L.. Pani, T. 2009. Thallophytic algal flora from a new Silurian Lagerstätte. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 1, 38-42. DOI:10.3176/earth.2009.1.04

Nitecki M. H., Mutvei, H., Nitecki, D. V. 1999. Receptaculitids: A Phylogenetic Debate on a Problematic Fossil Taxon. pp. 1-241. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Kõrts, A. 1991. Distribution of calcareous algae, oncolites and stromatolites in Wenlock-Ludlow boundary beds in Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 40, 2, 43-49. DOI:10.3176/geol.1991.2.02

Kõrts, A., Einasto, R., Männil, Ralf, Radionova, E. 1990. Calcareous algae. pp. 97-100. Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Nitecki, M. H., Spjeldnæs, N. 1989. A new ordovician tubular 'alga' from Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 69, 2, 95-102.

Radionova, E., Einasto, R. 1986. The algal communities, their facies relations in the East Baltic Wenlock and Ludlow. Theory and practice of ecostratigraphy, pp. 163-185. Valgus.

Istchenko, A. A. 1985. Silurian algae of Podolia. pp. 1-114. Naukova Dumka.

Miagkova, E. I. 1981. Receptaculites poelmi Miagkova sp. nov.. Transactions of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics 481, 38-41. Nauka.

Brummer, G. J. A. 1979. Palaeobiology of Tetragonis sulcata d'Eichwald, 1860, an Ordovician receptaculite in erratics from the northern Netherlands. Scripta Geologica 53, 1-40.

Gnilovskaya, M. B. 1972. The Calcareous Algae of the Middle and Late Ordovician of the Eastern Kazakhstan. pp. 1-196. Nauka.

Gnilovskaya, M. B. 1971. The most anicent Vendian water plants of the Russian Platform (Late Precambrian). Paleontologicheski Zhurnal 1971, 3, 101-107.

Rõõmusoks, A. 1970. Stratigraphy of the Viruan Series (Middle Ordovician) in Northern Estonia, I. pp. 1-346. Valgus.

Kaljo, D. (ed) 1970. The Silurian of Estonia. pp. 1-343. Valgus.

Kozłowski, R., Kažmierczak, J. 1968. On two Ordovician calcareus algae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13, 3, 325-340.

Gnilovskaya, M. B. 1965. Ordovician algae of the genus Vermiporella from the Tarbagatai ridge. Paleontologicheski Zhurnal 1965, 1, 133-144.

Moskalenko, T. A. 1956. Dejaki Dasycladaceae z ordovyka Prybaltyky. pp. 232-250.

Spjeldnaes, N. 1955. Coelosphaeridium (Chlorophyta Dasycladaceae) from the Caradocian beds of N. Wales. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 35, 151-153.

Høeg, O. E. 1932. Ordovician algae from the Trondheim area. The Hovin Group in the Trondheim Area, II, Paleontological part, pp. 63–96.

Høeg, O. A. 1927. Dimorphosiphon rectangulare: preliminary note on a new Codiacea from the Ordovician of Norway. pp. 3-14.

Bekker, H. 1924. Mõned uued andmed Kukruse lademe stratigraafiast ja faunast. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 1, 1-20.

Rothpletz, A. 1913. Ueber die kalkalgen, spongiostromen und einige andere fossilien aud dem obersilur Gottlands. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning 10, 1-57.

Stolley, E. 1898. Neue Siphoneen aus baltischen Silur. Archiv für Antropologie und Geologie Schleswig-Holsteins und der benachbarten Gebiete 3, 1, 40-67.

Stolley, E. 1896. Untersuchungen über Coelosphaeridium, Cyclocrinus, Mastopora und verwandte Genera des Silur. Archiv für Antropologie und Geologie Schleswig-Holsteins und der benachbarten Gebiete 1, 2, 177-282.

Rauff, H. 1892. Untersuchungen über die Organisation und systematische Stellung der Receptaculitiden. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 17, 645-722.

Eichwald, E. 1861. Paleontologiâ Rossii. Drevnij period. II. Fauna grauvakkovoj, gornoizvestkovoj i medistoslancevatoj formacij Rossii. pp. 1-521. R. Golike (former Ya. Ionsona).

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List of species

1. Apidium krausei (Kiesow, 1893) | Jõhvi Substage

2. Apidium pygmaeum Stolley, 1896 | Jõhvi Substage

3. Apidium rotundum Høeg, 1932 | Upper Ordovician

4. Apidium sororis Stolley, 1896 | Jõhvi Substage

5. Chaetocladus capillatus Høeg, 1926

6. Chaetocladus gracilis Kenrik et Vinther, 2006 | Ludfordian

7. Chaetocladus vasalemmense Kröger et Tinn, 2023 | Sandbian

8. Chuaria circularis Walcott, 1899 | Ediacaran

9. Coelosphaeridium conwentzianum Kiesow, 1893 | Kukruse Stage

10. Coelosphaeridium cyclocrinophilum Roemer, 1883 | Ordovician

11. Coelosphaeridium excavatum Stolley, 1898 | Aseri Stage→Uhaku Stage

12. Coelosphaeridium kohtlaensis Bekker, 1924 | Kukruse Stage

13. Coelosphaeridium sphaericum (Kjerulf, 1865) | Ordovician

14. Coelosphaeridium wesenbergense Stolley, 1898 | Katian

15. Cyclocrinites balticus Stolley, 1898 | Upper Ordovician

16. Cyclocrinites jevensis Moskalenko, 1956 | Jõhvi Substage

17. Cyclocrinites mickwitzi Stolley, 1898

18. Cyclocrinites oelandicus Stolley, 1898 | Upper Ordovician

19. Cyclocrinites ornatus Stolley, 1896 | Jõhvi Substage

20. Cyclocrinites porosus Stolley, 1896 | Haljala Stage

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Domain	Eukaryota
Kingdom	Plantae
Organism group	Algae (informal)
	Cryptospores (informal)
Phylum	Angiospermae
	Archaeopteridophyta
	Bryophyta
	Chlorophyta
Subphylum	Chlorophytina
	Siphonales
Class	Chuariaphyceae
Phylum	Coniferophyta
	Lycopodiophyta
	Marchantiophyta
	Monilophyta
	Rhodophyta
	Spermatophyta
	Tracheophyta
Class	Vendophyceae
Genus	Boucekocaulis
	Crinocaulis
	Inocaulis
	Microweedia
	Osagia
	Rhadinograptus