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| Wengania Temporal range: Doushantuou | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Total group: | Florideophyceae |
| Genus: | †Wengania Zhang, 1989 |
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Wengania is a non-differentaited, non-mineralized algal thallus under a millimeter in diameter.
References
- ^ Zhang, Yun (1989). "Multicellular thallophytes with differentiated tissues from Late Proterozoic phosphate rocks of South China". Lethaia. 22 (2): 113–132. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01674.x.
- Zhang, Y; Yin, L; Xiao, S; Knoll, AH (1998). "Permineralized fossils from the terminal Proterozoic Doushantuo Formation, South China". Journal of Paleontology. 72 (4, Supplement): 1–52. Bibcode:1998JPal...72S...1Z. doi:10.1017/S0022336000059977. JSTOR 1315592. S2CID 132715240.
- Xiao, S. (2004). "New Multicellular Algal Fossils and Acritarchs in Doushantuo Chert Nodules (Neoproterozoic; Yangtze Gorges, South China)". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (2): 393–401. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0393:NMAFAA>2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4094885. S2CID 131132454.
- 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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