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Morania fragmenta fossil from Millard County, Utah | |
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Genus: | Morania
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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 cyanobacterium Nostoc. [1] 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]
Morania Temporal range:
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Morania fragmenta fossil from Millard County, Utah | |
Scientific classification | |
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Phylum: | |
Genus: | Morania
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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 cyanobacterium Nostoc. [1] 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]