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Eomycetopsis campylomitus
Eomycetopsis campylomitus Lo Precambr. Res., 13: 143. Nov 1980
- Name
- Eomycetopsis campylomitus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Eomycetopsis
- Authors (Pub.)
- Lo S.-C. C.
- Publication
- Microbial fossils from the lower Yudoma Suite, earliest Phanerozoic, eastern Siberia [1980/11]
- Journal
- Precambrian research
- Volume
- 13
- Page number
- 143
- Year
- 1980
- Fossil Status
- thallus (filamentous)
- Stratigraphy
- Ediacaran
- Strat. comment
- 600; Yudoma Formation
- Location
- mouth of the Tarynnakh River, along both slopes of the Belaya (or Khanda) River valley, Gornostak anticline, Yakutia Republic, Russian Federation
- Paleoregion
- Pannotia (Siberia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- University of California Santa Barbara, Biogeology Clean Laboratory, Santa Barbara, USA
- Repository Number
- C571(9); 8.9 mm above and 23.7 mm to the right of the reference "× "
- Diagnosis
- Thread-like specimens, slender, filamentous, flexible, slightly curved to strongly sinuous. Nonseptated, unbranched. Surface slightly granular or highly granular; light- to dark-brown. Wall thin, distinct to poorly defined. Commonly a single filament includes a slightly granular section with a distinct wall and a highly granular portion without a delimiting wall. Filaments may be solitary or occur as many entangled threads forming elongate, belt-like clusters. Clusters are commonly surrounded by abrown amorphous matrix suggesting a colonial association. Individual specimens are up to 250/~m long (incomplete specimen) and 0.8--2.0/~m wide, averaging 1.5/~m (standard deviation = 0.38/~m; 40 specimens measured). The width may be variable in a single specimen, giving way to discordant local construction.
