Marpolia
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| Marpolia Temporal range:
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| File:NMNH-USNMPAL194191Marpolia.jpg | |
| Fossil of Marpolia from the Burgess Shale | |
| File:Diorama of the Burgess Shale Biota (Middle Cambrian) - Marpolia.jpg | |
| Restoration model at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana | |
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| Genus: | Marpolia Walcott, 1919
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| Species: | M. spissa
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| Marpolia spissa Walcott, 1919
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Marpolia has been interpreted as a cyanobacterium, but also resembles the modern cladophoran green algae. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale[1] and Early Cambrian deposits from the Czech Republic.[2] It comprises a dense mass of entangled, twisted filaments. It may have been free-floating or grown on other objects, although there is no evidence of attachment structures.[1] 40 specimens of Marpolia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.08% of the community.[3]
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