Archaeosphaeroides
| Archaeosphaeroides Temporal range:
Paleoarchean, ~ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteriota |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Archaeosphaeroides Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967[3] |
| Type species | |
| †Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis[3] Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967
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| Other species[3][4] | |
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Archaeosphaeroides is a fossil genus of probable[5] coccoid cyanobacterium known from microfossils discovered in the Fig Tree Group of South Africa, as well as the Warrawoona Group of Western Australia.[3][4][6] It lived during the Paleoarchean era, around 3.481–3.225 Ga.[1][2]
It contains two species, A. barbertonensis (the type species[3]) and A. pilbarensis.[3]
References
- ^ a b North Pole Dome, locality A (Paleoarchean of Australia) in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ a b Daylight Mine, Barberton (Paleoarchean of South Africa) in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ a b c d e f Archaeosphaeroides in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ a b Awramik, S. M.; Schopf, J. W.; Walter, M. R. (June 1983). "Filamentous fossil bacteria from the Archean of Western Australia". Precambrian Research. 20 (2–4): 357–374. Bibcode:1983PreR...20..357A. doi:10.1016/0301-9268(83)90081-5. ISSN 0301-9268. S2CID 140716823.
- ^ Archaeosphaeroides J.W. Schopf & E.S. Barghoorn, 1967 †. Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 14 February 2026.
- ^ Schopf, J. W.; Barghoorn, E. S. (1967). "Alga-Like Fossils from the Early Precambrian of South Africa". Science. 156 (3774): 508–512. Bibcode:1967Sci...156..508S. doi:10.1126/science.156.3774.508. eISSN 1095-9203. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1721235. PMID 17730741. S2CID 24428995.
Further reading
- G Bignot, 1983: Elements of Micropalaeontology, p.165
- Lessem, D., & Sovak, S., 1999: Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals
- Allaby, Michael (2008). A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-19-172661-3.