Discovery of plywood structure in Sphenothallus from Gurovo Formation (Mississippian), Central Russia

• Autorzy: Vinn Olev , Mironenko Aleksandr A.

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DOI

10.14241/asgp.2021.01

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Sphenothallus specimens are reported for the first time from the Mississippian of Central Russia. All Sphenothallus specimens have a phosphatic composition and a characteristic laminar structure, which is best observable in the thickened lateral parts of a tube. Most of the lamellae in the tube wall are straight, but some have a wavy morphology and a few are so wrinkled that they form hollow “ribs”. The wrinkled lamellae presumably had an originally higher organic content than the straight lamellae. There are borings on the surfaces of some lamel-lae that are similar in morphology to the bioerosional traces in various hard, biomineral substrates. Lamellae in the inner parts of the tube wall are composed of fibres. The fibres are parallel to the surface of the tube wall and in successive laminae they differ in orientation by irregularly varying angles. It is possible that the plywood micro-structure in Sphenothallus was originally organic and was later phosphatized during fossilization. An alternative, but less likely explanation is that the plywood structure was originally mineralized and therefore is comparable to the phosphatic lamello-fibrillar structures of vertebrates.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Scyphozoa; biomineralization; tube microstructure; ultrastructure; mineral composition; Carboniferous

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne
• Czasopismo: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: Vol. 91, No. 1
• Strony: 67--74
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 33 poz., fot., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Vinn Olev

• Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, Estonia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2889-2544

autor

Mironenko Aleksandr A.

• Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevski Lane 7, Moscow 119017, Russia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1913-8395

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