Wetheredella

Wetheredella is a genus of calcimicrobe known from the Silurian of Gotland. It may represent a Foraminifera.[4][5] Its type species is W. silurica.[6]

Wetheredella
Temporal range: 443.7–383.7 Ma
Scientific classification
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Foraminifera (?)
Class: incertae sedis (?)
Genus: †Wetheredella
Wood, 1948. taxon inquirendum (possibly not in foraminifera[1]
Type species
†Wetheredella silurica
Wood, 1948
Species
  • †Wetheredella nodosum Talent 1963[2]
  • †Wetheredella silurica Wood, 1948
Synonyms[3]

Allonema Ulrich & Bassler, 1904

Wetheredella is possibly a synonym of Allonema.[7]

References
  1. Loeblich Jr., Alfred R.; Tappan, Helen (1988). "Generic Tana Erroneously Regarded as Foraminifers". Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification. 1. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. p. 730. ISBN 9781489957603. OCLC 680469074. Retrieved 7 January 2019. Wetheredella Wood, 1948 ('3389A). p. 20; type species: Wetheredella silurica Wood, 1948. Alga.
  2. J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118
  3. "Allonema" (html). Fossilworks. Retrieved 7 January 2019. Synonym: Wetheredella Wood 1948 (taxon 117727)
  4. Riding, R.; Watts, N. (1981). "Silurian algal reef crest in Gotland". Naturwissenschaften. 68 (2): 91–92. Bibcode:1981NW.....68...91R. doi:10.1007/BF01047229. S2CID 8834679.
  5. Nose, Martin; Schmid, Dieter U.; Leinfelder, Reinhold R. (2006). "Significance of microbialites, calcimicrobes, and calcareous algae in reefal framework formation from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden". Sedimentary Geology. 192 (3–4): 243–265. Bibcode:2006SedG..192..243N. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.04.009.
  6. Liu, Lijing; Wu, Yasheng; Yang, Haijun; Riding, Robert (2016). "Ordovician calcified cyanobacteria and associated microfossils from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: systematics and significance" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (3): 183–210. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1030128. S2CID 129684955.
  7. Jarochowska, E; Munnecke, A. (2014). "The Paleozoic problematica Wetheredella and Allonema are two aspects of the same organism". Facies. 60 (2): 651–662. doi:10.1007/s10347-014-0399-z. S2CID 129772080.
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