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Myxococcoides staphylidion
Myxococcoides staphylidion Lo Precambr. Res., 13: 152. Nov 1980
- Name
- Myxococcoides staphylidion
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Myxococcoides
- 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
- 152
- Year
- 1980
- Fossil Status
- vesicles
- Stratigraphy
- Ediacaran
- Strat. comment
- 600; Yudoma Formation
- Location
- right bank of the Aldan River, about 12 km upstream from the mouth of the Khanda (or Belaya) River, Yakutia republic, Russian Federation
- Paleoregion
- Pannotia (Siberia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- University of California Santa Barbara, Biogeology Clean Laboratory, Santa Barbara, USA
- Repository Number
- C568(3); 11.9 mm above and 37.8 mm to the right of the reference "X"
- Diagnosis
- Cell-like units, spheroidal to ellipsoidal, occasionally polyhedral in crowded clusters. Surface smooth, unornamented, light-brown. Wall thin, solid or broken, rarely obscure, diffuse, thickness usually less than 0.8 ~m. Individual units not encompassed by any envelope. Rarely solitary, usually 10--70 individuals clumped in three
