Suppiluliumaella Elliott 1968

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 : 74

Genus Suppiluliumaella Elliott 1968

Suppiluliumaella delphica ( Carras, 1989) Senowbari-Daryan et al., 1994

Fig.12 a-f

This dasycladalean alga was assigned by Carras (1989) with doubt to Clypeina . Senowbari et al. (1994) transferred the species to Suppiluliumaella based on the presence of short secondary laterals in a few specimens.

This feature is rarely present, mainly due to common erosion of the outer surface of the calcareous skeleton, but probably also to the incomplete calcification of the distal part of the laterals. We also assume the presence of short secondary laterals in the case of the specimen illustrated in Fig. 12 f (arrow). We identified S. delphica in Kimmeridgian-Tithonian limestones from the Ay-Petri and Yalta massifs.

Figures

Fig. 12 Calcareous algae (Dasycladales) from the Yalta-Ay Petri area, southern Crimea. a to f Suppiluliumaella delphica (Carras) in oblique (a, c, e), transverse (d) and longitudinal (f) sections. a, f, sample KB-39; b, sample KB-41b; c, sample KB-6b; d, sample KJ-5c; e, sample KB-51a. g, h Suppiluliumaella sp. In oblique (g) and longitudinal-oblique (h) sections. g, sample Kj-23b; h, sample KC-27. Scale bar: 0.25 mm (a to f, h); 0.5 mm (g).