Article: Distribution and affinities of the Jurassic dasycladalean alga Sarfatiella

Information on the nature, taxonomy, and stratigraphical and geographical distributions of thi dasycladalean algal structure Sarfatiella is summarized. It is suggested that Sarfatiella is the calcifiec reproductive structure of an otherwise non-calcified dasycladalean. Its middle Jurassic palaeogeographical distribution is latitudinally wide and believed to have been subtropical as well as tropical.