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Cycliocyrillium rootsi

Discussion

Vase-shaped microfossil

Taxonomy
Cycliocyrillium rootsi was named by Cohen et al. (2017). Its type specimen is Specimen from sample YG644.1 (slide J1204- 17.9 (4)), England Finder coordinates L19-0, Figure 4G. and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is J1301, which is in a Neoproterozoic marine mudstone in the Callison Lake Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Cycliocyrillium rootsi Cohen et al. p. 16 figs. Figure 4G–J

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Life
Eukarya
RankNameAuthor
genusCycliocyrillium
speciesrootsi

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Cycliocyrillium rootsi Cohen et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
P.A. Cohen et al. 2017Species of Cycliocyrillium with long neck, test walls are concave for much of the fossil before extending to the aperture; neck lengths account for greater than 10% of the total test length.