Platysolenites Explained

Platysolenites is a genus of agglutinated foraminifera known from Ediacaran and lower Cambrian assemblages.^[1]

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.^[2]

External links

• How old are Feraminfern from the University of Bonn.

Notes and References

1. 10.1016/j.rgg.2008.06.012 . A section of Vendian in the east of West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3) . 2008 . Kontorovich, A . Russian Geology and Geophysics . 49 . 932 . Varlamov . A . Grazhdankin . D . Karlova . G . Klets . A . Kontorovich . V . Saraev . S . Terleev . A . Belyaev . S . 12 . 2008RuGG...49..932K .
2. McIlroy. Duncan. Green. O.R. Brasier. M.D. Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms. Lethaia. 34. 13–29. 10.1080/002411601300068170. 2001.