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Beltanelliformis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Cyanobacteria (?)
Genus:	†Beltanelliformis Menner, 1974
Species
B. brunsae Menner, 1974 B. minutae McIlroy et al., 2005
Synonyms
Nemiana Palij, 1976 Beltanelloides Sokolov, 1965 Hagenetta Hahn et Pflug, 1988 Namamedusium Zessin, 2008

Beltanelliformis is a genus of discoid fossil from the Ediacaran period containing the two species B. brunsae and B. minutae, sometimes ascribed to the Ediacaran Biota. The chemical signature obtained from organically preserved specimens points to a cyanobacterial affinity (cf. Nostoc). Depending on its preservation, it is sometimes referred to as Nemiana or Beltanelloides.

References

1. Keller, B.M.; Menner, V.V.; Stepanov, V.A.; Chumakov, N.M. (1974). "Новые находки Metazoa в вендомии Русской платформы" [New finds of metazoa in the Vendomii of the Russian platform] (PDF). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSR. Seriya Geologicheskaya (in Russian). 12: 130–134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-07.
2. ^ Bobrovskiy, Ilya; Hope, Janet M.; Krasnova, Anna; Ivantsov, Andrey; Brocks, Jochen J. (22 January 2018). "Molecular fossils from organically preserved Ediacara biota reveal cyanobacterial origin for Beltanelliformis". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2 (3): 437–440. Bibcode:2018NatEE...2..437B. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0438-6. PMID 29358605. S2CID 3334262.
3. Ivantsov A.Yu.; Gritsenko V.P.; Konstantinenko L.I.; Zakrevskaya M.A. (2014). "Revision of the Problematic Vendian Macrofossil Beltanelliformis (=Beltanelloides, Nemiana)". Paleontological Journal. 48 (13): 1423–1448. Bibcode:2014PalJ...48.1415I. doi:10.1134/S0031030114130036. S2CID 128760957.

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