Morania

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Morania
Temporal range: Late early Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
Morania fragmenta (fossil bacteria) (Wheeler Formation, Middle Cambrian; Millard County, Utah, USA) 2.jpg
Morania fragmenta fossil from Millard County, Utah
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Cyanobacteria
Genus:
Morania

Morania is a genus of cyanobacterium preserved as carbonaceous films [1] in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. [2] it is present throughout the shale; [3] 2580 specimens of Morania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 4.90% of the community. [2] It is filamentous, [1] forms sheets, [3] and resembles the modern cyanobacterium Nostoc . [1] It would have had a role in binding the sediment, [3] and would have been a food source for such organisms as Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia . [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Carroll Lane Fenton (1943). "Pre-Cambrian and Early Paleozoic algae". American Midland Naturalist . 30 (1): 83–111. doi:10.2307/2421265. JSTOR   2421265.
  2. 1 2 Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR   20173022. S2CID   53646959.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Caron, J. B.; Jackson, D. A. (2008). "Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 258 (3): 222–256. Bibcode:2008PPP...258..222C. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023.
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