Morania Explained
Morania is a genus of cyanobacterium preserved as carbonaceous films in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. it is present throughout the shale; 2580 specimens of Morania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 4.90% of the community.[1] It is filamentous, forms sheets, and resembles the modern cyanobacterium Nostoc.[2] 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]
External links
- Web site: 2011. Morania confluens. Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. https://web.archive.org/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=85. 2020-11-12. dead.
Notes and References
- Caron . Jean-Bernard. Jackson . Donald A.. Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale . PALAIOS . 21 . 5 . 451–65. October 2006. 10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. 20173022. 2006Palai..21..451C . 53646959 .
- 10.2307/2421265 . . 1943 . Pre-Cambrian and Early Paleozoic algae . . 30 . 1 . 83–111 . 2421265.
- J. B.. D. A.. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Caron. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 258. 3. 222–256. 2008. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023. Jackson. 2008PPP...258..222C.