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Marpolia has been interpreted as a cyanobacterium, but also resembles the modern cladophoran green algae. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale [1] and Early Cambrian deposits from the Czech Republic. [2] It comprises a dense mass of entangled, twisted filaments.
Fuxianospira gyrata is a Cambrian macroalgae found in the Chengjiang lagerstätte. [1] Preserved in clustered, helicoid groups, the filaments are threadlike, plain and without branches. [ 1 ] Brown and smooth in appearance, these structural characteristics display a resemblance to modern brown algae. [ 2 ]
Dulse is one of many edible algae. Algaculture may become an important part of a healthy and sustainable food system [11]. Several species of algae are raised for food. While algae have qualities of a sustainable food source, "producing highly digestible proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates, and are rich in essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals" and e.g. having a high protein ...
Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. [1] Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. [2]
Vaxa's plant has a unique situation. It's the only place where algae cultivation is integrated with a geothermal power station, which supplies clean electricity, delivers cold water for ...
The extinct Solenoporaceae have traditionally been interpreted as a group of red algae ancestral to the Corallinales. [4] The genus from which they take their name, Solenopora, originates in the Ordovician. [5] Unlike the Corallinaceae, this family has large vegetative cells and an undifferentiated thallus. [5]
Bosworthia is a genus of branching photosynthetic alga known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 20 specimens of Bosworthia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.04% of the community. [1] One of its two original species has since been reassigned to Walcottophycus. [2]
Microbial mats were abundant on the shallow seabed until the Cambrian substrate revolution, when animals living in shallow seas increased their burrowing capabilities and thus broke up the surfaces of mats and let oxygenated water into the deeper layers, poisoning the oxygen-intolerant microorganisms that lived there. Although this revolution ...