Calcareous Algae from the Miocene of Lebanon

Palaeocene limestone of the Ninniyur Formation of the Cauvery Basin contains abundant well-preserved calcareous algae. These various types of calcareous algal seem to be controlled by the characteristics of each type environments in which they developed and thus they provide useful palaeo-ecological information of the Ninniyur Formation. The distribution patterns of these groups of calcareous algae, extending from tidal flat to reefal environments have been observed in the Palaeocene of the Ninniyur Formation, Cauvery Basin South India. Key words: Ninniyur formation, Calcareous algae, Palaeoecology. Ecoprint Vol.11(1) 2004.

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DISTRIBUTION OF CALCAREOUS ALGAE FROM MUSTOE REEF, SILURIAN KEYSER FORMATION, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA

10.1130/abs/2017se-291257 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

David L. Jeffery ◽

Keyword(s):

Calcareous Algae

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Ecologic significance of post-Palaeozoic green calcareous algae

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s001675680004173x ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 115 (6) ◽

pp. 437-442 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Graham F. Elliott

Keyword(s):

Calcareous Algae ◽

Environmental Preferences ◽

Independent Evidence ◽

Taxonomic Relationship

SummaryThe 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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II.—On Solenopora garwoodi, sp. nov., from the Lower Carboniferous in the North-West of England

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800126706 ◽

1913 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 289-292 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

George J. Hinde

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Calcareous Algae ◽

Lower Carboniferous ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Jurassic Rocks

Some years since Professor E. J. Garwood sent to me for examination some pieces of limestone from the Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Shap and Ravenstonedale districts of Westmorland, in which he had observed the rounded outlines of fossils with a structure which appeared to him to resemble that of Stromatopora. The rock in which the fossils were embedded was so compact and hard that they could not be extracted, and it was necessary to make sections in various directions in order to ascertain their structure, which proved to be identical with that of Solenopora, now well known as one of the calcareous Algæ. It is many years ago since this genus was recognized in the Ordovician rocks in North America, Britain, and Eussia; more recently it was found in the Silurian rocks of the Isle of Gotland, and in 1894 a species was described from the Jurassic rocks of Gloucestershire and Yorkshire. But until this fortunate discovery of its occurrence in the Lower Carboniferous by Professor Garwood, no example of the genus was known in any of the rocks between the Silurian and the Jurassic.

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