Orpikania Peel
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000527
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:527
Authors: J. S. Peel
Rank: genus
Reference: Peel, J. S. (2018): An epiphytacean-Girvanella (Cyanobacteria) symbiosis from the Cambrian (Series 3; Drumian) of North Greenland (Laurentia). – Bulletin of Geosciences 93(3): 327–336.
Page of description: 329
Type taxon
Orpikania freucheni Peel
Original protologue
Multi-axial epiphytacean with cylindrical dichotomous branches about 100 μm in diameter and with points of branching about 1 mm apart. Cell height about half of filament width; mineralized sheath thin, reflecting the underlying cell structure.
Etymology
From ‘orpik’, the Greenlandic word for tree, reflecting the dendritic habit.
Plant fossil remain
cyanobacteria and other prokaryotes