New Microorganisms from the Aphebian Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario
View/ Open
Knoll_NewMicroorganisms.pdf (861.3Kb)
Access Status
Full text of the requested work is not available in DASH at this time ("restricted access"). For more information on restricted deposits, see our FAQ.Published Version
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1303843Metadata
Show full item recordCitation
Knoll, Andrew H., Elso S. Barghoorn, and Stanley M. Awramik. 1978. New microorganisms from the Aphebian Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 52 (5):976-992.Abstract
Two new algal taxa are described from the approximately 2,000 m.y. old Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario. Leptoteichos golubicii, n. gen. et sp., were relatively large (5-31 mu m) spherical plankters living in the water column above the central portions of the Gunflint basin. Post-mortem degradation processes have acted on this taxon to produce a "spot cell" organization similar to that exhibited by younger putatively eukaryotic cells; however, L. golubicii is here placed among the Algae incertae sedis and considered to be a probable cyanophyte. Megalytrum diacenum, n. gen. et sp., is the preserved sheath of a colonial chroococcalean blue-green alga. It constitutes an allochthonous element of the algal chert facies microbiota of the Gunflint Iron Formation.Citable link to this page
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3686135
Collections
- FAS Scholarly Articles [18256]
Contact administrator regarding this item (to report mistakes or request changes)