Talk:Tawuia

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Wang et al. (2011) described the cell walls of Chuaria and show that it is most likely a multicellular eukaryotic alga. They note on page 1257, "The formation yields abundant leiospheroid acritarchs and macroscopic carbonaceous compression fossils such as Chuaria, Tawuia, Ellipsophysa, and Sinosabellidites", implying that Tawuia is valid.

Wang X, Yuan X L, Zhou C M, et al. Anatomy and plant affinity of Chuaria. Chinese Sci Bull, 2011, 56: 1256−126 http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11434-011-4370-x.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.111.125.161 (talk) 13:17, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rule of priority

Tawuia was named in 1979 and Chuaria was named in 1899, so if they are synonyms, Chuaria by far has priority. J. Spencer (talk) 02:44, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Chuaria (and also Longfengshania) are valid as separate form-genera so not strictly synonyms, even though they may represent different parts of the same plant according to some authors. Thus they deserve their own articles (presently just redirects to this one) which I may or may not get around to at some point... Tony 1212 (talk) 19:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Affinity of Tawuia

The paper 'The Proterozoic macrofossil Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote and a possible macroalga' suggests that Tawuia is a coenocytic macroalgae, which is a hypothesis that I feel should be considering it seems to be favoured by many authors ('Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou formation of North China: an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic' says quote "At present most researchers interpret Tawuia as a Coenocytic macroalga") Tourmaline Ctenacanth (talk) 02:46, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]