Cryptic disc structures resembling ediacaran discoidal fossils from the lower Silurian Hellefjord Schist, Arctic Norway

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Kirkland, Chris, Macgabhann, B., Kirkland, B., Daly, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Holdfast; Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19994; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164071

The Hellefjord Schist, a volcaniclastic psammite-pelite formation in the Caledonides of Arctic Norway contains discoidal impressions and apparent tube casts that share morphological and taphonomic similarities to Neoproterozoic stem-holdfast forms. U-Pb zircon geochronology on the host metasediment...