Girvanella pituutaq Peel
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000530
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:530
Author: J. S. Peel
Rank: species
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: 333
Illustrations or figures: fig. 2A
Types
Holotype PMU 31758, Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Figures: fig. 2A
Note: Holotype: from GGU sample 315119 [GGU indicates a sample made during regional geological campaigns of Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (Geological Survey of Greenland)].
Original diagnosis/description
Thin-walled, cylindrical filaments, about 60–80 μm in external diameter, regularly twisted together into a rope.
Etymology
From ‘pituutaq’, the Greenlandic word for rope, alluding to the twisting together of the filaments.
Stratigraphy
Cambrian, Cambrian Series 3, Drumian
Ekspedition Bræ Formation
Locality
Greenland (Denmark)
Southern Freuchen Land, North Greenland
Plant fossil remain
cyanobacteria and other prokaryotes
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