Probable proterozoic fungi

• Main Author: Butterfield, N. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: 04 - Palaeobiology; Canada; Roper; Victoria Island; victoria island
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/1591/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/1591/1/Butterfield_NJ_Paleobiology,_31%281%29,2005,pp_165-182.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031<0165:PPF>2.0.CO;2

A large, morphologically heterogeneous population of acanthomorphic acritarchs from the early Neoproterozoic Wynniatt Formation, Victoria Island, northwestern Canada, is ascribed to two form-genera, Tappania and Germinosphaera, but just a single natural taxon, Tappania. Analysis of Tappania morpholo...