Archaeosphaeroides
Extinct genus of bacteria
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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]
| 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 | |
| Other species[3][4] | |
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It contains two species, A. barbertonensis (the type species[3]) and A. pilbarensis.[3]
