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Middle Cretaceous algal flora from the Mauddud Formation

Abdullah Shaker Al-Sayyab

Department of Geology, College of Science, University of Baghdad

Mamoun Ubaid Mohammed

Department of Surveying, Technical College - Baghdad

Abstract

Algal flora of the Mauddud Limestone Formation (Late Albian-Early Cenomanian) from Ratawi field, south Iraq consists of twenty our species of several green and red families. The most prominent are green algae (Chlorophyceae) which are numerous and diversified in this unit.

Species identified as occurring, comprise cosmopolitan representation of the families Dasycladaceae and Codiaceae of the green algae and Gymnocodiaceae, Corallinaceae and Squamariaceae of the red algae in descending order.

Iraqi J. Sci., v. 32, no. 3, pp. 646-662, 1991.