| Archaeosphaeroides Temporal range:
Paleoarchean, ~ | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteriota |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Archaeosphaeroides Schopf and Barghoorn, 19673 |
| Type species | |
| †Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis3 Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967
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| Other species34 | |
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Archaeosphaeroides is a fossil genus of probable5 coccoid cyanobacterium known from microfossils discovered in the Fig Tree Group of South Africa, as well as the Warrawoona Group of Western Australia.346 It lived during the Paleoarchean era, around 3.481–3.225 Ga.12
It contains two species, A. barbertonensis (the type species3) and A. pilbarensis.3
References
References
- North Pole Dome, locality A (Paleoarchean of Australia) in the Paleobiology Database
- Daylight Mine, Barberton (Paleoarchean of South Africa) in the Paleobiology Database
- Archaeosphaeroides in the Paleobiology Database
- 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
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.