| Grypania Temporal range: Paleoproterozoic–Ediacaran Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. | |
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| Grypania spiralis fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Grypania Walter, Oehler & Oehler, 1976 |
| Type species | |
| Grypania spiralis Walter, Oehler & Oehler, 1976 | |
Grypania is an early, tube-shaped fossil from the Proterozoic eon. The organism, with a size over one centimeter and consistent form, could have been a giant bacterium, a bacterial colony, or a eukaryotic alga. The oldest probable Grypania fossils date to about 2100 million years ago (redated from the previous 1870 million) and the youngest extended into the Ediacaran period. This implies that the time range of this taxon extended for 1200 million years.
References
- M. R. Walter, John H. Oehler & Dorothy Z. Oehler (1976). "Megascopic algae 1,300 million years old from the Belt supergroup, Montana: a reinterpretation of Walcott's Helminthoidichnites". Journal of Paleontology. 50 (5): 872–881. JSTOR 1303584.
- ^ Han, T. M.; Runnegar, B. (1992-07-10). "Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old negaunee iron-formation, Michigan". Science. 257 (5067): 232–235. Bibcode:1992Sci...257..232H. doi:10.1126/science.1631544. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 1631544.
- Schneider, D. A., Bickford, M. E., Cannon, W. F., Schulz, K. J., & Hamilton, M. A. (2002). Age of volcanic rocks and syndepositional iron formations, Marquette Range Supergroup: implications for the tectonic setting of Paleoproterozoic iron formations of the Lake Superior region. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39(6), 999-1012.
- Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Du, W. (2016). The long-ranging macroalga Grypania spiralis from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Guizhou, South China. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 1-10.
External links
- Grypania spiralis (scroll down) in "Major Events in the History of Life"
- Grypania spiralis photo gallery, specimens from Negaunee Iron Formation, Michigan
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