Horodyskia

Artists' reconstruction of Horodyskia growth form

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeosporales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Mucoromyceta
Divisio: Glomeromycota
Subdivisio: Glomeromycotina
Classis: Archaeosporomycetes
Ordo: Archaeosporales

Familia: Geosiphonaceae
Genus: †Horodyskia
Species: H. minor – H. moniliformis – H. williamsii

Name

Horodyskia Yochelson & Fedonkin, 2000

References

  • Yochelson, E. L., & Fedonkin, M. A. (2000). A new tissue-grade organism 1.5 billion years old from Montana. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113: 843–847 full text at BHL.
  • Grey, K., Yochelson, E. L., Fedonkin, M. A., & Martin, D. McB. (2010). Horodyskia williamsii new species, a Mesoproterozoic macrofossil from Western Australia. Precambrian Research 180: 1–17 pdf full text.
  • Retallack, G.J., Dunn, K.L., & Saxby, J. 2013. Problematic Mesoproterozoic fossil Horodyskia from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Precambrian Research 226: 125–142 abstract.

Vernacular names

English: String of beads fossil
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