Taxonomic assessment of fossil Holocene coralline red algae (Rhodophyta, Corallinales, Hapalidiales) from southwestern Atlantic
| Autor: | Davide Bassi, Ricardo Coutinho, Frederico Tapajós de Souza Tâmega, Paula Spotorno de Oliveira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Mesophyllum
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences corallines Intertidal zone Plant Science Red algae 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences taxonomy calcareous algae Algae Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Holocene 0105 earth and related environmental sciences corallines Holocene marine ecology taxonomy Brazil calcareous algae taxonomy Rio de Janeiro biology Ecology marine ecology Ambientale Spongites yendoi biology.organism_classification Rio de Janeiro Mastophoroideae Bay Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Phytotaxa. 245:237 |
| ISSN: | 1179-3163 1179-3155 |
| DOI: | 10.11646/phytotaxa.245.4.1 |
| Popis: | Holocene shallow-water carbonate and mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits from the Arraial do Cabo Bay, Brazil, southwestern Atlantic, contain well-preserved coralline red algae. These comprise four species of three genera representing the subfamilies Lithophylloideae, Mastophoroideae and Melobesioideae: Lithophyllum pustulatum, Spongites fruticulosus, Spongites yendoi, Mesophyllum engelharti. Geniculate corallines are present as algal debris. This study represents the first fossil record of these species in southwestern Atlantic Ocean. They inhabited the studied area since at least 13.000 years and are still thriving in the present-day assemblages. Only L. pustulatum and S. fruticulosus have old fossil records traced back into the Oligocene from the Mediterranean region. From ca. 3.000 years ago these species thrive in intertidal settings along the southwestern Atlantic Ocean coasts, which have been characterized by a regressive sea-level trend. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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