Isolated algal cysts in the Palaeocene–Lower Eocene of Kurdistan

29 4 Wed, 01/01/1986 - 12:00 December 739 741

ELLIOTT, G. F. 1986. Isolated algal cysts in the Palaeocene–Lower Eocene of Kurdistan. Palaeontology, 29, 4, 739–741.

Graham F. Elliott Individual spherical bodies from a richly algal deposit in the Palaeocene-Lower Eocene of Kurdistan are described in detail and interpreted as detached cysts from a dasycladalean alga believed to resemble Halicoryne (Cenozoic-Recent). The fossils are named Sedalanella segonzacae gen. et sp. nov. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)