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English: Morania fragmenta Walcott, 1919 - fossil bacteria from the Cambrian of Utah, USA.

Click on the photo to zoom in - the dark gray and black splotches on this bedding plane are soft-bodied fossils interpreted as sheets of cyanobacteria, which are photosynthesizing microbes.

Classification: Bacteria, Cyanobacteria

Stratigraphy: Wheeler Formation, upper Middle Cambrian

Locality: unspecified site in the House Range, Millard County, western Utah, USA
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Author James St. John

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