Polybessurus bipartitus Green et al. 1987

Polybessurus bipartitus

Full reference: J. W. Green, A. H. Knoll, S. Golubić and K. Swett. 1987. Paleobiology of distinctive benthic microfossils from the Upper Proterozoic Limestone-Dolomite "Series," central East Greenland. American Journal of Botany 74:928-940

Belongs to Polybessurus according to V. N. Sergeev 1994

See also Green et al. 1987 and Hofmann and Jackson 1991

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Harvard Univ. 62022-A, England Finder location N25/4. Its type locality is Sample E-18-23, Ella Ø, which is in a Tonian peritidal limestone in Greenland.

Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Tonian of Greenland (3 collections)

• Stenian of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Ectasian of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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