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Girvanella is a fossil thought to represent the calcified sheath of a filamentous cyanobacterium known from the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fossil deposits. Girvanella was originally described as a foraminifera. It was later assigned to the now-obsolete family porostromata. In 2020, it was assigned to the order Oscillatoriales. Fossils of Girvanella are found from the Cambrian through the Cretaceous.

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  • Girvanella (en)
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  • Girvanella is a fossil thought to represent the calcified sheath of a filamentous cyanobacterium known from the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fossil deposits. Girvanella was originally described as a foraminifera. It was later assigned to the now-obsolete family porostromata. In 2020, it was assigned to the order Oscillatoriales. Fossils of Girvanella are found from the Cambrian through the Cretaceous. (en)
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  • Nicholson & Etheridge, 1878 (en)
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  • * †G. kasakiensis (Maslov, 1949 emend. Mamet & Roux, 1975) * †G. problematica (Nicholson & Etheridge, 1878 emend. Wood, 1957) * †G. staminea (Garwood, 1931) * †G. wetheredii (Chapman, 1908) (en)
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  • Nicholsonia (Korde, 1973) (en)
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  • Girvanella (en)
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  • Girvanella problematica (en)
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  • Nicholson & Etheridge, 1878 emend. Wood, 1957 (en)
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  • Girvanella is a fossil thought to represent the calcified sheath of a filamentous cyanobacterium known from the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fossil deposits. Girvanella was originally described as a foraminifera. It was later assigned to the now-obsolete family porostromata. In 2020, it was assigned to the order Oscillatoriales. Girvanella is characterised by having flexing, tubular filaments with a uniform diameter usually between 10 and 30 microns (rarely up to 100 microns). The walls of these tubules are relatively thick and calcareous. These tubules are typically (but not always) twisted together into nodules, and often encrust other objects including foraminifera. Fossils of Girvanella are found from the Cambrian through the Cretaceous. Girvanella fossils are found in a wide range of environmental conditions, most commonly shallow-shelf carbonate facies, but also in nonmarine limestones. Recent caliche deposits in Barbados may be referable to Girvanella. (en)
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