Platysolenites

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Platysolenites
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Platysolenites antiquissimus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: Sar
Clade: Rhizaria
Phylum: Retaria
Subphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Monothalamea
Order: Astrorhizida
Family: Hyperamminidae
Subfamily: Hyperammininae
Genus:† Platysolenites
Pander in Eichwald, 1854
Species [1]
  • Platysolenites antiquissimus Eichwald, 1860
  • Platysolenites cooperi McIlroy, Green & Brasier, 2001

Platysolenites is a genus of agglutinated foraminifera known from Ediacaran and lower Cambrian assemblages. [2]

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Further reading

  1. Platysolenites is shown to extend below the first appearance of P. antiquissimus in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary stratotype region, SE Newfoundland, and to occur at higher stratigraphic levels in Wales and Finnmark. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Hayward BW, Cedhagen T, Kaminski M, Gross O, eds. (2025). "Platysolenites Pander in Eichwald, 1854 †". World Modern Foraminifera Database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  2. ↑ Kontorovich, A; Varlamov, A; Grazhdankin, D; Karlova, G; Klets, A; Kontorovich, V; Saraev, S; Terleev, A; Belyaev, S (2008). "A section of Vendian in the east of West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3)". Russian Geology and Geophysics. 49 (12): 932. Bibcode:2008RuGG...49..932K. doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2008.06.012.
  3. ↑ McIlroy, Duncan; Green, O.R; Brasier, M.D (2001). "Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms". Lethaia. 34: 13–29. doi:10.1080/002411601300068170.


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