Fossil Algae: Recent Results and Developments

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Interpretation of Microbial Fossils with Special Reference to the Precambrian....Pages 1-14
Evolving Concepts on the Nature and the Ecological Significance of Stromatolites....Pages 15-35
Primary Production, Mat Formation and Lithification: Contribution of Oxygenic and Facultative Anoxygenic Cyanobacteria....Pages 37-56
Skeletal Stromatolites....Pages 57-60
Environmental Significance of Foraminiferal-Algal Oncolites....Pages 61-65
Stromatolites from the Precambrian Transvaal Dolomite of NE-Transvaal, South Africa....Pages 66-73
Environmental Significance of Upper Proterozoic Algal Stromatolites from Zambia....Pages 74-79
Stromatolites and Thrombolites in Precambrian/Cambrian Boundary Beds of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco: Preliminary Results....Pages 80-85
Riphean Stromatolites from Western Lower Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, India....Pages 86-100
Distribution of Stromatolites and Stromatolitic Reefs in the Precambrian of India....Pages 101-106
Sedimentpetrographical and Geochemical Studies of the Late Precambrian Stromatolites of India....Pages 107-112
Algal Remains in the Lower Cambrian Bonavista Formation, Conception Bay, Southeastern Newfoundland....Pages 113-123
Stromatolites from the Zechstein Limestone (Upper Permian) of Poland....Pages 124-135
A Possible Bacterial Origin for Famennian Micrites....Pages 136-142
The Development of the Dasyclad Algae through the Ages....Pages 143-153
Classification Criteria of Fossil Dasycladales....Pages 154-166
Late Paleozoic Calcareous Red Algae....Pages 167-176
The Mesozoic Red Algae: A General Survey....Pages 177-189
A Comparison of the Anatomical Structures of a Recent and a Fossil Species of the Corallinaceae....Pages 190-198
Reproduction Cycle of an Oncolithic Red Alga (Nemalionales) of the Lacustrine Miocene of Euböa (Greece)....Pages 199-201
Problems of Affinity in Palaeozoic Calcareous Algae....Pages 202-211
Receptaculitids are Calcareous Algae but no Dasyclads....Pages 212-214
On Moravamminida and Aoujgaliida (Porifera, Ischyrospongia): Upper Paleozoic “Pseudo Algae”....Pages 215-219
Statistical Analysis of Fossil Algae....Pages 220-224
Skeletal Structures of Some Calcifying Algae....Pages 225-231
Role of Calcareous Algae in Atlantic Continental Margin Sedimentation....Pages 232-247
Carbonate Construction and Decomposition by Epilithic and Endolithic Micro-organisms in Salt- and Freshwater....Pages 248-260
Carbonate Cementation in Recent Coralline Algal Constructions....Pages 261-269
Ecological Studies on two Carbonate Sediment-Producing Algae....Pages 270-278
The Coralline Algae from the Miocene Ziqlag Formation in Israel and Their Environmental Significance....Pages 279-285
Paleogeographic Significance of Rhodolites: Some Examples from the Miocene of France and Turkey....Pages 286-294
The Lower Cretaceous Calcareous Algae in the Area Surrounding Geneva (Switzerland): Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environments....Pages 295-300
Relationships of Algae with Depositional Environments and Faunal Assemblages of the Panormide Carbonate Platform, Upper Triassic, Northwestern Sicily....Pages 301-313
Environmental Models for Upper Paleozoic Benthic Calcareous Algal Communities....Pages 314-343
Some Ordovician and Silurian Algae from Selected Areas of the Southwestern United States....Pages 344-350
Early Cambrian Algal Carbonates in Southern Spain....Pages 351-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-365
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