Morania

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title: "Morania" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cyanobacteria-genera", "prehistoric-bacteria", "burgess-shale-fossils", "wheeler-shale", "cambrian-genus-extinctions"] description: "Extinct genus of bacteria" topic_path: "general/cyanobacteria-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morania" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Extinct genus of bacteria ::

| image = Morania fragmenta (fossil bacteria) (Wheeler Formation, Middle Cambrian; Millard County, Utah, USA) 2.jpg | image_caption = Morania fragmenta fossil from Millard County, Utah | domain = Bacteria | phylum = Cyanobacteria | genus = Morania

Morania is a genus of cyanobacterium preserved as carbonaceous films in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. it is present throughout the shale; 2580 specimens of Morania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 4.90% of the community. It is filamentous, forms sheets, and resembles the modern cyanobacterium Nostoc. It would have had a role in binding the sediment, and would have been a food source for such organisms as Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia.

References

References

1. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS.
2. [[Carroll Lane Fenton]]. (1943). "Pre-Cambrian and Early Paleozoic algae". [[American Midland Naturalist]].
3. (2008). "Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

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