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Marpolia has been interpreted as a cyanobacterium, but also resembles the modern cladophoran green algae. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale [1] and Early Cambrian deposits from the Czech Republic. [2] It comprises a dense mass of entangled, twisted filaments.
Fuxianospira gyrata is a Cambrian macroalgae found in the Chengjiang lagerstätte. [1] Preserved in clustered, helicoid groups, the filaments are threadlike, plain and without branches. [ 1 ] Brown and smooth in appearance, these structural characteristics display a resemblance to modern brown algae. [ 2 ]
Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. [1] Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. [2]
The extinct Solenoporaceae have traditionally been interpreted as a group of red algae ancestral to the Corallinales. [4] The genus from which they take their name, Solenopora, originates in the Ordovician. [5] Unlike the Corallinaceae, this family has large vegetative cells and an undifferentiated thallus. [5]
Coralline algae are red algae in the order Corallinales. They are characterized by a thallus that is hard because of calcareous deposits contained within the cell walls. The colors of these algae are most typically pink, or some other shade of red, but some species can be purple, yellow, blue, white, or gray-green.
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 ...
They swim "upside-down" and feed by filtering organic particles from the water or by scraping algae from surfaces. [11] They are an important food for many birds and fish, and are cultured and harvested for use as fish food. [8] There are 300 species spread across 8 families. [13]
Proaulopora is a Cambrian–Ordovician fossil genus of calcareous algae.It has been variously thought to belong to the green algae, red algae or cyanobacteria.It was originally established by the Russian paleontologist Aleksandr Grigoryevich Vologdin [] in 1937, for species known from the Lower Cambrian of the western Altai Mountains.