Marpolia
Appearance
Marpolia Temporal range:
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Genus: | Marpolia
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Species: | M. spissa Walcott 1919
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Marpolia has been interpreted as a cyanobacterium, but also resembles the modern cladophoran green algae. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale[1] and Early Cambrian deposits from the Czech Republic.[2] It comprises a dense mass of entangled, twisted filaments. It may have been free-floating or grown on other objects, although there is no evidence of attachment structures.[1] Template:Gpb abundance
References
- ^ a b Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN 1-56098-659-X, OCLC 231793738
- ^ "Steiner, M., Fatka, O., 1996, Lower Cambrian tubular micro- to macrofossils from the Paseky Shale of the Barrandian area (Czech Republic): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v, 70, p. 275–299" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-26.
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