Mesophyllum schenckii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hapalidiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Rhodophyta Subdivisio: Rhodophytina Classis: Florideophyceae Subclassis: Corallinophycidae Ordo: Hapalidiales

Familia: Hapalidiaceae
Subfamilia: Melobesioideae
Genus: Mesophyllum
Species: Mesophyllum schenckii

Name

Mesophyllum schenckii M.Howe, 1934

• Type locality: Indian Creek (Santa Ynez quadrangle), about 6.44 km, (4 miles) south of Big Pine Mountain, Santa Barbara County, California, USA (Stanford University locality 930).
• Holotype: M.F. Keenan; September 1930; Leland Stanford Junior University paleontological type collection no. 5635, includes slide 1164. Isotype: PC, General Herbarium box collection (fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym). Howe lists additional isotypes (1934: 511, footnote 20).

References

• Howe, M.A. 1934. Eocene marine algae (Lithothamnieae) from the Sierra Blanca limestone. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 45: 507–518, 4 plates. Reference page. : 512
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. Mesophyllum schenckii. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2019-02-04