After Barattolo (Abstracts of the 5th international symposium on fossil algae, 1991) and Barattolo and Romano (Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 44(3): 237–254, 2005) emended the diagnosis of the genus Linoporella Steinmann to include species with three orders of laterals, algae included formerly in this genus but with only two orders of laterals remained in open nomenclature. Comparisons of these algae with other Jurassic and Cretaceous

A new taxon has been found in the Upper Aptian (Clansayesian)-Albian limestones of Pădurea Craiului (Northern Apuseni Mountains). It is the second representative of the genus Zittelina identified in deposits older than the Cenozoic. This new species differs from Z. hispanica—described from Hauterivian deposits—for its axial cavity is narrower (with proportionally longer laterals and a lower d/D ratio) and the median part of the laterals are

Sinoporella leei was first described and illustrated by Yabe in 1949 as a new species and was ascribed to a new subgenus of the genus Triploporella (Steinmann). This alga was not illustrated again until Mu published 25-years later a photomicrograph of a longitudinal-tangential section. The recent finding of new specimens in Permian strata of the Guangxi region (South China) allows us to better illustrate this alga, and to improve our understanding

The Berdiga Limestone (Oxfordian to Barremian; NE-Turkey) was analyzed by a profile of 320 m thickness consisting of well-bedded platform carbonates. The biostratigraphic subdivision is based on calcareous algae and benthic foraminifera. Oxfordian oncolitic, intraclastic packstones and grainstones (fragments of corals) are overlain by crystalline dolomite with ghost textures of intraclasts, ooids and biogenics. Micritic limestones with microbial

The Badenian (Middle Miocene) Gîrbova de Sus Formation rests upon the basement in a transgressive trend (West of the Transylvanian depression). For the first time, an algal-rich carbonate platform with coral build-ups is described in this area. These build-ups underline clearly a retrograding sequence. The coral assemblage is dominated by Faviidae and Porites colonies. Five types of coral build-ups without any zonation are distinguished. Their unusual

Several specimens of Triploporella praturloni BARATTOLO including partially detached individuals isolated from the host rock by waethering and two (quasi complete) longitudinal sections have been identified in the lower Barremian deposits from southern Vercors (SE France). The collected material allowed us to provide additional remarks on the morphology of this alga and on its distribution in the Tethian area.