Girvanella

Girvanella is thought to represent the calcified sheath of a filamentous cyanobacterium known from the Burgess Shale[1] and other Cambrian fossil deposits.[2]

Girvanella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Cyanobacteria
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
†Girvanella

Nicholson & Etheridge, 1878

References
  1. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
  2. Riding, R. (1975). "Girvanella and other algae as depth indicators". Lethaia. 8 (2): 173–179. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1975.tb01310.x.


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