A new tissue-grade organism 1.5 billion years old from Montana
Yochelson EL and Fedonkin MA. 2000. A new tissue-grade organism 1.5 billion years old from Montana. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 112(10):843-847
Horodyskia moniliformis, a new genus and new species from the Appekunny Formation in Glacier National Park is described. Enough detail is available to potentially tell the color of these organisms when they were living. It was also found that the organism exhibited a form of colonial growth.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Yochelson, Ellis; Fedonkin, Mikhail
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- Appekunny Formation, Fossils, Glacier National Park MT, Horodyskia moniliformis (prehistoric eucaryote), Paleontology