Chinianella Ott ex Granier & Deloffre, 1993

Bucur, Ioan I., Granier, Bruno & Krajewski, Marcin, 2014, Calcareous Algae, Microbial Structures And Microproblematica From Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous Limestones Of Southern Crimea, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 10 (1 - 2), pp. 1-2 : 67

Genus Chinianella Ott ex Granier & Deloffre, 1993 Chinianella scheimpflugi Hofmann, 1994 , emend. Schlagintweit, 2011

Fig. 4 a-f

Schlagintweit (2011) recently revised this alga that was first described by Hofmann (1994). The emended diagnosis states that the basal part of the thallus of C. scheimpflugi is represented by a well-marked stalk showing only alternating sterile phloiophorous laterals, as well as a more-developed main part with laterals arranged into vertical rows. The Crimean specimens identified by us were also examined and illustrated by Schlagintweit (2011). Currently, C. scheimpflugi is only known from 5 sites: Ernstbrunn ( Austria) – the type-locality ( Hofmann, 1994); Plassen carbonate platform (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria) ( Schlagintweit, 2011), Parnassus ( Greece) ( Carras, 1995; Schlagintweit, 2011), Outer Carpathians ( Poland) ( Bucur et al., 2005; Schlagintweit, 2011) and Crimea ( Schlagintweit, 2011; this paper).

Figures

Fig. 4 Calcareous algae (Dasycladales) from the Yalta-Ay Petri area, southern Crimea. a to f Chinianella scheimpflugi Hofmann in oblique (a, c), tangential (b) and transverse (d-f) sections. a, sample KB-15c; b,c, sample KB-27; d, sample KE-12; e, sample Kj-5a; f, sample KC-11. g to l Griphoporella cretacea (Dragastan) in oblique-tangential (h, i), tangential (j), and oblique-longitudinal and longitudinalal (g, k, l) sections. g, sample KB-40a; h, i, sample KB-40b; j, sample KB-38c; k, sample KB-7a; l, sample KB-7e. Scale bar: 0.25 mm (a to f, h to l); 0.5 mm (g).