Cryptic Disc Structures Resembling Ediacaran Discoidal Fossils from the Lower Silurian Hellefjord Schist, Arctic Norway

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Kirkland, Christopher L, MacGabhann, Breandan, Kirkland, Brian, Daly, Stephen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: G Geography (General); Arctic; Norway; Holdfast
• Online Access: http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/8379/; http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/8379/1/journal.pone.0164071.PDF; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article? id=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...