Phylum

Chlorophyta Pascher, 1914

green algae

Selection of related publications

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

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

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.

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. Elsevier BV. 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

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.

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.

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 3, 101-107.

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

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

Eichwald, E. 1860. Lethaea Rossica ou Paléontologie de la Russie. Premier volume. Ancienne Période en deux sections. pp. XIX+1–1657. E. Schweizerbart. DOI:10.5962/bhl.title.52391

Eichwald, E. 1856. Beitrag zur geographischen Verbreitung der fossilen Thiere Russlands. Alte Periode. (Fortsetzung). Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological series 29, 1, 88-127.

Kutorga, S. 1846. Ueber das silurische u. devonische Schichten-System von Gatchina. Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 85-139. Carl Kray.

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. Coelosphaeridium conwentzianum Kiesow, 1893 | Kukruse Stage

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

10. Coelosphaeridium kohtlaensis Bekker, 1924 | Kukruse Stage

11. Coelosphaeridium sphaericum (Kjerulf, 1865) | Ordovician

12. Coelosphaeridium wesenbergense Stolley, 1898 | Katian

13. Cyclocrinites balticus Stolley, 1898 | Upper Ordovician

14. Cyclocrinites jevensis Moskalenko, 1956 | Jõhvi Substage

15. Cyclocrinites mickwitzi Stolley, 1898

16. Cyclocrinites oelandicus Stolley, 1898 | Upper Ordovician

17. Cyclocrinites ornatus Stolley, 1896 | Jõhvi Substage

18. Cyclocrinites porosus Stolley, 1896 | Haljala Stage

19. Cyclocrinites roemeri Stolley, 1896 | Upper Ordovician

20. Cyclocrinites schmidti Stolley, 1898 | Upper Ordovician

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Plantae
Organism group	Algae (informal)
Phylum	Chlorophyta
Subphylum	Siphonales
Class	Chlorophyceae
	Ulvophyceae
Order	Dasycladales
Phylum	Rhodophyta
Class	Chuariaphyceae
	Vendophyceae
Genus	Boučekocaulis
	Crinocaulis
	Doushantuophyton
	Estoniocaulis
	Hoeegonites
	Inocaulis
	Microweedia
	Nuia
	Rhadinograptus
	Siphonophycus
	Thallograptus (algae)