Biocatenoides incrustata

Name

Biocatenoides incrustata

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Biocatenoides

Authors (Pub.)

Oehler J. H.  

Publication

Microflora of the H.Y.C. Pyritic Shale Member of the Barney Creek Formation (McArthur Group), Middle Proterozoic of Northern Australia [1978/10]

Journal

Alcheringa

Volume

1

Issue

3

Page number

330

Year

1978

Fossil Status

vesicles

Stratigraphy

Calymmian

Strat. comment

1560; Barney Creek Formation

Location

McArthur Basin, Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, North Australia

Paleoregion

Columbia (North Australia)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia

Repository Number

73425955 (CPC 16922), coordinates 17.4 x 102.3

Num

Fig. 5A

Pub.

Microflora of the H.Y.C. Pyritic Shale Member of the Barney Creek Formation (McArthur Group), Middle Proterozoic of Northern Australia [1978/10]

Diagnosis

Uniseriate, unbranched, filamentous structures 0.3-0.8/am wide (av. 0.6/am; 44 filaments) and up to or exceeding 150/am long, encrusted over most or all of their lengths with very fine-grained metallic minerals (commonly pyrite). Filaments smooth to moniliform, gently curved to highly contorted, rarely straight, essentially uniform in width along their lengths. Filament substructure obscured by mineralic encrustation, but probably consisting of chains of rod-shaped or coccoid cells, in some cases possibly enclosed within thin sheaths.