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Paratetraphycus
Genus Paratetraphycus Z.-Y. Zhang Precambr. Res., 28(2): 165. Apr 1985
- Name
- Paratetraphycus
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Zhang Z.-Y.
- Publication
- Coccoid microfossils from the Doushantuo Formation (Late Sinian) of South China [1985/4]
- Journal
- Precambrian research
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 165
- Year
- 1985
- Parent Taxon
- [Regnum] Prokaryota
- Fossil Status
- vesicles
- Type
- Paratetraphycus giganteus
- Diagnosis
- Cell-like units spheroidal, ellipsoidal, hemispheroidal or slightly polygonal due to mutual compression, 3--21 ~m in diameter. Walls thin, distinct; surface texture psilate to finely granular. Spheroids commonly in planar tetrads and diads, occasionally in triads and cross tetrads. Tetrads commonly occur in planar clusters (one or two layers), without an encompassing amorphous organic matrix.
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