Tawuia
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Tawuia is a millimetric disc-shaped macrofossil from the Neoproterozoic
. It is considered to be synonymous with Chuaria and Longfengshania.
Tawuia describes a more sausage- or smile-shaped fossils; Chuaria refers to more discoial instances.
The fossils are often preserved as organic compressions. They are considered to represent microbial structures; some authors consider them to be affiliated with the algae.
Stratigraphically, they range from to the late Ediacaran.
Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from 1,000 to 542.0 ± 1.0 million years ago. The terminal Era of the formal Proterozoic Eon , it is further subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran Periods...
. It is considered to be synonymous with Chuaria and Longfengshania.
Tawuia describes a more sausage- or smile-shaped fossils; Chuaria refers to more discoial instances.
The fossils are often preserved as organic compressions. They are considered to represent microbial structures; some authors consider them to be affiliated with the algae.
Stratigraphically, they range from to the late Ediacaran.