Tappania-bearing association of the Siberian platform: Biodiversity, stratigraphic position and geochronological constraints |
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| Authors: | Konstantin Nagovitsin |
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| Institution: | aTrofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosidirsk, Russia |
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| Abstract: | A new fossil microbiota yielding eukaryotic Tappania is described from the Mesoproterozoic Kamo Group of the Central Angara Basin, Siberian Craton. The assemblage also includes Valeria, Satka, Lophosphaeridium, Pulvinosphaeridium, Miroedichia, Osculosphaera, Tasmanites, Obruchevella, Glomovertella, as well as branching and anastomosing filamentous microfossils of putative fungal affinities and peculiar short trichomes, that together substantially increase the biodiversity of the Tappania Association. Stratigraphic position and geochronological constraints indicate a relatively young Late Mesoproterozoic age of the Tappania-bearing sediments. There appears to be a continuity between the Tappania Association and the Neoproterozoic microbiota, the latter being firmly rooted in the Late Mesoproterozoic. |
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| Keywords: | Tappania Siberia Mesoproterozoic eukaryotes Acritarchs Riphean Kerpylian |
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