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Unusual organic-walled microfossil from the late Neoproterozoic Nyborg Formation, Digermulen Peninsula, Arctic Norway

Agic, Heda (author)
Department of Earth Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
Moczydłowska, Małgorzata (author)
Uppsala universitet,Paleobiologi
Högström, Anette (author)
Tromsø Universitetsmuseum
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Ebbestad, Jan Ove R., 1967- (author)
Uppsala universitet,Evolutionsmuseet
Jensen, Sören (author)
Área de Paleontología, Universidad de Extremadura, Avenida de Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
Meinhold, Guido (author)
Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen, Germany
Palacios, Teodor (author)
Área de Paleontología, Universidad de Extremadura, Avenida de Elvas s/n, Badajoz, Spain
Taylor, Wendy L. (author)
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Novis, Linn K. (author)
Tromsø Universitetsmuseum
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2017
2017
English.
In: ISECT 2017.
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  • The late Neoproterozoic Nyborg Formation is exposed in the Tanafjord area, Finnmark, Arctic Norway, on Digermulen and Varanger Peninsulas. The succession is composed of ~400 m of interbedded shales, siltstone and purple to grey sandstone, deposited between Neoproterozoic low latitude glacial deposits. The Nyborg Fm. lies on top of the Smalfjord diamictite, and is overlain by the Mortensnes diamictite (the latter was attributed to both Marinoan (650-635 Ma) and Gaskiers (579 Ma) glaciations) and the Ediacaran-Cambrian Stáhpogieddi Formation. Thus, the Nyborg Fm. represents late Neoproterozoic, probably the last Cryogenian interglacial interval. Presented material was collected in 2014 by members of Digermulen Early Life Research Group, from organic-rich, grey-green shales and siltstones of the Nyborg Mbr. D, uppermost Nyborg Fm. between Árasulluokta and Guvssájohka valleys. Organic-walled microfossils were extracted from shale via standard palynological acetolysis in hydrofluoric acid, and studied via light and scanning electron microscopy. Microfossils from the Nyborg Fm. include Synsphaeridium-type aggregated cells, unbranched bacterial filaments (Polythrichoides and Siphonophycus), sphaeromorph and envelope-bearing acritarchs (leiosphaerids, Stictosphaeridium, Simia), and previously unrecognized aggregated tubular microfossils. These taxa are long-ranging, but common in glacial-interglacial units worldwide, and thus broadly corroborate the Cryogenian age of the Nyborg sediments. The novel fossil, up to 300 μm in size, is a parenchymatous meshwork of interconnected organic-walled tubes that terminate in cup-shaped apices 4-11 µm in diameter. Irregular tube clusters are truncated both in macerates and in thin sections, suggesting post mortem transport. Elemental EDXS analysis indicates that extracted meshwork microfossils are predominantly composed of carbonaceous material and also associated with small amounts of titanium and vanadium. Considering the branching and adjoined body plan of carbonaceous fossil, it was likely multicellular and of eukaryotic affinity. As such, it may represent an important step in the evolution of complex multicellularity and morphological complexity several million years before the appearance of Ediacaran organisms.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Annan geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Digermulen
Ediacara
Nyborg Formation
organic-walled microfossils
Earth Science with specialization in Historical Geology and Palaeontology
Geovetenskap med inriktning mot historisk geologi och paleontologi

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