Wengania

Wengania Temporal range: Doushantuou
Scientific classification
Clade:	Archaeplastida
Division:	Rhodophyta
Total group:	Florideophyceae
Genus:	†Wengania Zhang, 1989[1]
Species
†W. globosa Zhang, 1989[1] †W. exquisita Zhang et al., 1998[2] †W. minuta Xiao, 2004[3]

Wengania is a non-differentaited, non-mineralized algal thallus under a millimeter in diameter.^[4]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.