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Extinct genus of algae

Chaetocladus
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician - Devonian
The holotype of Chaetocladus plumula (USNM 41 137, from LoDuca 1997)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: UTC clade
Order: Dasycladales
Family: †Triploporellaceae
Genus: †Chaetocladus
Whitfield 1894 emend. LoDuca 1997
Species

See text.

Chaetocladus is an extinct non-calcifying genus of unicellular green algae known from the Upper Silurian.

Morphology

Chaetocladus thalli range from 2–6 cm in height and average 1 cm in diameter. They comprise a parallel-sided, unbranching axis which is surrounded by leaf-like ramifications.

Fossil record

Chaetocladus is known from upper Silurian konservat lagerstätte, and found in association with other algae, arthropods, and annelid worms. Similar Dasycladean algae are reported from late-Ordovician lagerstatte.

Classification

Due to its morphological similarity to the extant order Dasycladales, Chaetocladus is considered to be an early cousin of this order. Unlike the majority of Dasycladales, Chaetocladus does not form deposit calcite - therefore it required much rarer taphonomic conditions to be preserved. Some genera now recognised as Chaetocladus were originally described as Graptolites.

Species

References

  1. LoDuca, S.T.; Kluessendorf, J.; Mikulic, D.G. (2003). "A New Noncalcified Dasycladalean Alga From The Silurian Of Wisconsin". Journal of Paleontology. 77 (6): 1152–1158. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<1152:ANNDAF>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 130113745.
  2. ^ LoDuca, S.T. (1997). "The Green Alga Chaetocladus (Dasycladales)". Journal of Paleontology. 71 (5): 940–949. doi:10.1017/S0022336000035873. JSTOR 1306570. S2CID 130816541.
  3. Young, G.A.; Rudkin, D.M.; Dobrzanski, E.P.; Robson, S.P.; Nowlan, G.S. (2007). "Exceptionally preserved Late Ordovician biotas from Manitoba, Canada". Geology. 35 (10): 883–886. Bibcode:2007Geo....35..883Y. doi:10.1130/G23947A.1.
  4. Kenrick, P.; Vinther, J. (2006). "Chaetocladus gracilis n. sp., a non-calcified Dasycladales from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, Sweden". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 142 (3–4): 153–160. Bibcode:2006RPaPa.142..153K. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.023.
  5. e.g. LoDuca, S.T. (1990). "Medusaegraptus mirabilis Ruedemann as a Noncalcified Dasyclad Alga". Journal of Paleontology. 64 (3): 469–474. doi:10.1017/S0022336000018710. JSTOR 1305597.
Taxon identifiers
Chaetocladus


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