- Horodyskia
Taxobox
image_caption = "
Horodyskia " apparently re-arranged itself into fewer but larger main masses as as the sediment grew deeper round its base.
fossil_range = 1500 - 900 Ma
regnum =Animalia
genus = "Horodyskia"
genus_authority =
species = "H. Moniliformis"
binomial_authority =
synonyms ="Horodyskia" is a fossilised organism found in rocks dated from ma|1500| to ma|900. Its shape has been described as a "string of beads" connected by a very fine thread.cite journal
author=Fedonkin, M.A. | date=March 2003
title=The origin of the Metazoa in the light of the Proterozoic fossil record
journal=Paleontological Research | volume=7 | issue=1 | pages=9-41
url=http://www.vend.paleo.ru/pub/Fedonkin_2003.pdf | accessdate=2008-09-02 ] It may also have had a series ofholdfast s along the bottom of the thread. [cite journal
author=Martin, D.McB. | date=August 2004
title=Depositional environment and taphonomy of the 'strings of beads': Mesoproterozoic multicellular fossils in the Bangemall Supergroup, Western Australia
journal=Australian Journal of Earth Sciences | volume=51 | issue=4 | pages=555-561
doi=10.1111/j.1400-0952.2004.01074.x
url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/35861762-44649531/content~db=all~content=a725292214~tab=content
accessdate=2008-09-02 ]Comparisons of different fossils in the same locations suggest that it re-arranged itself into fewer but larger main masses as as the sediment grew deeper round its base.
It may have been an early
metazoan , or a colonialforaminifera n. [cite journal
author=Dong, L., Xiao, S., Shen, B., and Zhou, C. | date=Jan 2008
title=Silicified "Horodyskia" and "Palaeopascichnus" from upper Ediacaran cherts in South China: tentative phylogenetic interpretation and implications for evolutionary stasis
journal=Journal of the Geological Society | volume=165 | pages=367-378 | doi=10.1144/0016-76492007-074
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_200801/ai_n24394476/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1
accessdate=2008-09-02 ]Footnotes
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