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Accumulations of phylloid algae in beds, lenses, and massive or thickly bedded mounds or other morphologic forms which disrupt evenly bedded strata are conspicuous and common constituents of shallow marine carbonate strata of Pennsylvanian and Early Permian age throughout the world (Wray 1968; Heckel 1974). The term “phylloid”, as used by Pray and Wray (1963), is a descriptive term referring to the leaf-like or platy morphology of fossil algae of various taxonomic affinities, including ancestral Corallinaceae,Codiaceae and, possibly, Squamariaceae (Wray et al. (1975).
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Cross, T.A., Klosterman, M.J. (1981). Autecology and Development of a Stromatolitic-Bound Phylloid Algal Bioherm, Laborcita Formation (Lower Permian), Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A.. In: Monty, C. (eds) Phanerozoic Stromatolites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67913-1_6
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