Maculosphaera kingstonensis Licari

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000271

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:271

Rank: species

Reference: Licari, G. R. (1978): Biogeology of the late pre-Phanerozoic Beck Spring Dolomite of eastern California. – Journal of Paleontology 52(4): 767–792.

Page of description: 784

Illustrations or figures: pl. 1, fig. 8, pl. 2, figs 1–3, 5–6, 10

Name is type for

Maculosphaera Licari 1978

Types

Holotype n/n, Biogeology Clean Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Figures: pl. 1, fig. 8

Note: Licari (1978): Holotype is on thin section C250(38) from the Cloud Collection. Coordinates (22.7, 7.7).

Original diagnosis/description

As for the genus. Table 1 summarizes pertinent morphologic features.

Etymology

Named for the type locality in the Kingston Range.

Stratigraphy

Proterozoic, Mesoproterozoic
The fossiliferous outcrops occur 2,900 m below the lowest metazoan trace fossils, are younger than 1.7 b.y. and are correlated to the Apache Group of Arizona, bracketed between radiometric ages of 1.2 and 1.4 b.y.

Locality

United States
Locality 3 of 8/11/68 – Black laminated chert from partially silicified stromatolites within the top one meter of exposed outcrop of the Beck Spring Dolomite on the north slope of the Kingston Range, south side of road 0.5 km east-southeast of Horse Thief Springs, north-eastern San Bernardino County, California. Unsurveyed NE¼ sec. 2, T19N, R10E, of Horse Thief Springs Quadrangle, California-Nevada (1:62,500). Elevation about 1,344 m.

Plant fossil remain

algae - other

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