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Heydrichia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2656248	https://www.gbif.org/species/2656248
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	299110	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=299110

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Plantae : Rhodophyta : Florideophyceae : Corallinales : Sporolithaceae : Heydrichia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Plantae : Rhodophyta : Rhodophyceae : Corallinales : Sporolithaceae : Heydrichia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
kingdom	Plantae	Haeckel 1866
subkingdom	Biliphyta	Cavalier-Smith 1981
phylum	Rhodophyta	Wettstein 1922
class	Rhodophyceae	Ruprecht 1851
order	Corallinales	Silva and Johansen 1986
family	Sporolithaceae	Verheij 1993
genus	Heydrichia	R.A.Townsend Y.M.Chamberlain & Keats 1994

Scientific Name

Heydrichia R.A.Townsend, Y.M.Chamberlain & Keats, 1994

Name Published In

Townsend RA, Chamberlain YM, Keats D (1994) Heydrichia woelkerlingii sp. et gen. nov. a new nongeniculate coralline alga from South Africa Phycologia 33: 177-186

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Heydrichia	genus	belongs to Sporolithaceae	stated with evidence	Woelkerling et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

coastal,inner shelf,marine (based on Rhodophyceae)

Motility

stationary (based on Rhodophyceae)

Diet

photoautotroph (based on Rhodophyceae)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite,porous (based on Rhodophyceae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. J. Woelkerling, B. Granier, and D. Dias-Brito. 2014. Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland. Notebooks on Geology 14(7)

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Heydrichia cerasina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heydrichia groeneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heydrichia poignantii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Heydrichia woelkerlingii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1994	Heydrichia Townsend et al.
2014	Heydrichia Woelkerling et al.

References

Woelkerling W. J., Granier B., et al (2014) Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland, Notebooks on Geology 14 7

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2019). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. - via World Register of Marine Species

Silva, P.C.; Basson, P.W.; Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79, xiv+1259 pp. ISBN 0–520–09810–2. - via World Register of Marine Species

Townsend RA, Chamberlain YM, Keats D (1994) Heydrichia woelkerlingii sp. et gen. nov. a new nongeniculate coralline alga from South Africa Phycologia 33: 177-186 - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature]. Web publication, available at http://botany.si.edu/ing/ (accessed August 2007). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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