Platysolenites antiquissimus est species fossilis foraminiferorum, in stratis Cambrii inferioris inventa, ergo veterrima omnium foraminiferorum species nota.[1]

Platysolenites antiquissimus ad Kundam in Estonia inventus

Classis : Monothalamea 
Ordo : Astrorhizida 
Familia : Hyperamminidae 
Genus : Platysolenites 
Platysolenites antiquissimus 
Eichwald, 1860  

Testa Platysolenitis est tubiformis, cylindrica, agglutinata, scilicet e granis praesertim silicae confecta, 0.01–3 mm diametro, longitudine maximi inventi fragmenti ca. 5 cm. Ad initium cylindri invenitur proloculus sphaericus.[1]

Platysolenites ad familiam Hyperamminidarum ordinis Astrorhizidorum pertinet,[2] aut, iuxta aliam propositionem, ad familiam Bathysiphonidarum eiusdem ordinis.[3] Olim ad Annelida pertinere censebatur.[1]

Fossilia Platysolenitum in Anglia, Cambria,[1] Norvegia,[4][5] Estonia, Rossia, et Terra Nova inventa sunt.[1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 McIlroy, D., Green, O. R. & Brasier, M. D. (2001) Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms. Lethaia, 34 (1): 13–29.
  2. Kaminski, Michael A. (2004) The Year 2000 Classification of the Agglutinated Foraminifera. In: Bubík, M. & Kaminski, M.A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera. Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication, 8: 237–255.
  3. Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1984) Suprageneric classification of the Foraminiferida (Protozoa). Micropaleontology, 30 (1): 1–70. [Textus apud JSTOR]
  4. Føyn, S. & Glaessner, M. F. (1979) Platysolenites, other animal fossils, and the Precambian-Cambrian transition in Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 59: 25–46.
  5. McIlroy, D. & Brasier, M. D. 2017. Ichnological evidence for the Cambrian explosion in the Ediacaran to Cambrian succession of Tanafjord, Finnmark, northern Norway. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 448: 351–368.