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THE very important memoir of M. Munier-Chalmas, “Sur les Algues calcaires appartenant au groupe des Dasycladées Harv. et confondues avec les Foraminifères,” which was published in the Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires of the French Academy of Science for October 29, 1877, opens up quite anew or almost a new field of research, which has been followed up by the same author in a note presented last month to the Geological Society of France, “On the genus Ovulites.” Though regarded by some of the most eminent palæontologists as a monothalmic foraminifer related to Lagena, the genus Ovulites is herein clearly demonstrated to be neither more nor less than an articulation of a siphonaceous alga having very close affinities to Penicellus.
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WRIGHT, E. Fossil Calcareous Algæ . Nature 19, 485–486 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019485a0
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