Beltanelliformis is a genus of discoid fossil from the Ediacaran period containing the two species B. brunsae and B. minutae, sometimes ascribed to the Ediacaran Biota. The chemical signature obtained from organically preserved specimens points to a cyanobacterial affinity (cf. Nostoc).[2] Depending on its preservation, it is sometimes referred to as Nemiana or Beltanelloides.[2][3]
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteria (?) |
| Genus: | †Beltanelliformis Menner, 1974[1] |
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References
edit- ^ Keller, B.M.; Menner, V.V.; Stepanov, V.A.; Chumakov, N.M. (1974). "Новые находки Metazoa в вендомии Русской платформы" [New finds of metazoa in the Vendomii of the Russian platform] (PDF). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya (in Russian). 12: 130–134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-07.
- ^ a b Bobrovskiy, Ilya; Hope, Janet M.; Krasnova, Anna; Ivantsov, Andrey; Brocks, Jochen J. (22 January 2018). "Molecular fossils from organically preserved Ediacara biota reveal cyanobacterial origin for Beltanelliformis". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2 (3): 437–440. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0438-6. PMID 29358605. S2CID 3334262.
- ^ Ivantsov A.Yu.; Gritsenko V.P.; Konstantinenko L.I.; Zakrevskaya M.A. (2014). "Revision of the Problematic Vendian Macrofossil Beltanelliformis (=Beltanelloides, Nemiana)". Paleontological Journal. 48 (13): 1423–1448. doi:10.1134/S0031030114130036. S2CID 128760957.
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