Paramecia

Not to be confused with Paramecium.

Paramecia Temporal range: Doushantou PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Phylum:	Rhodophyta
Class:	Florideophyceae
Order:	Corallinales
Stem-group:	Corallinaceae
Genus:	†Paramecia

Paramecia was a non-mineralized Ediacaran alga with a differentiated, compartmentalized thallus; it probably had multiple phases in its lifecycle.^[1] Possible reproductive structures have been identified.^[1]

The term "paramecia" may also refer to multiple individual cells of the Paramecium genus.

References

1 2 Xiao, S.; Knoll, A. H.; Yuan, X.; Pueschel, C. M. (2004). "Phosphatized multicellular algae in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early evolution of florideophyte red algae". American Journal of Botany 91 (2): 214–227. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.2.214. PMID 21653378.

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