Marpolia Explained

Marpolia has been interpreted as a cyanobacterium, but also resembles the modern cladophoran green algae. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale and Early Cambrian deposits from the Czech Republic.^[1] It comprises a dense mass of entangled, twisted filaments. It may have been free-floating or grown on other objects, although there is no evidence of attachment structures. 40 specimens of Marpolia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.08% of the community.^[2]

External links

• Web site: 2011. Marpolia spissa. Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=79. 2020-11-12. dead. 2023-01-21.

Notes and References

1. Lower Cambrian tubular micro- to macrofossils from the Paseky Shale of the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) . Steiner . Michael . Fatka . Oldrich . November 1996 . Paläontologische Zeitschrift . 70 . 275–299 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326191944/http://web.natur.cuni.cz/ugp/main/staff/fatka/publication/031-Steiner-Fatka-1996.pdf . 2012-03-26 .
2. Caron . Jean-Bernard. Jackson . Donald A.. Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. PALAIOS . 21 . 5 . 451–65. October 2006. 10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. 20173022. 2006Palai..21..451C . 53646959 .