Platysolenites

Platysolenites
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Subphylum: Foramanifera
Genus: Platysolenites

Platysolenites is a genus of agglutinated foramanifera 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]

References

  1. 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. doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2008.06.012.
  2. McIlroy, Duncan; Green, O.R; Brasier, M.D. "Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms". p. 1. doi:10.1080/002411601300068170.
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