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Evidences for Cyanophyte Origin of Stromatoporoids

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Phanerozoic Stromatolites

Abstract

Stromatoporoids are calcareous fossils common in Early Paleozoic (?Cambrian — Lower Carboniferous) shallow-water carbonate deposits. They have been regarded as remnants of enigmatic organisms possibly related to hydrozoans or sponges (e.g., Galloway 1957, for review). The recent attempts of Hartman (1978), Hartman and Goreau (1966, 1970) and others to homologize stromatoporoids with living sclerosponges are basically ill-founded, since instead of proper stromatoporoids (Early Paleozoic) the authors used as comparative material dubious Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils somewhat resembling stromatoporoids in gross morphology and perhaps being sponges.

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  1. Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Zwirki i Wigury 93, 02089, Warszawa, Poland

    J. Kaźmierczak

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  1. Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Université de Liège, 7, place de Vingt-Août, B-4000, Liège, Belgium

    Claude Monty

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Kaźmierczak, J. (1981). Evidences for Cyanophyte Origin of Stromatoporoids. In: Monty, C. (eds) Phanerozoic Stromatolites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67913-1_17

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