Melanocyrillium
Genus of Precambrian microfossils
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Melanocyrillium is a Precambrian genus of vesicle-shaped (or vase-shaped) microfossils of uncertain affinity found in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and Togari Group of Tasmania.[1][2] M. hexodiadema has been described as a "probable lobose amoeba".[3]
Clade:incertae sedis
Genus:†Melanocyrillium
Bloeser, 1985
Bloeser, 1985
| Melanocyrillium Temporal range: 850 mya | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Melanocyrillium Bloeser, 1985 |
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Melanocyrillium microfossils are characterised by a hollow, vesicle- or vase-shaped morphology, sometimes exhibiting lobed or ornamented margins. The fossils are preserved as organic-walled microstructures typical of Precambrian acritarch-like assemblages.
