Where: Western Australia, Australia (21.2° S, 119.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Towers Formation, Paleoarchean (3600.0 - 3200.0 Ma)

• "middle chert horizon"

•3.3-3.6 BYA

Environment/lithology: marine; chert

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: J. W. Schopf and B. M. Packer. 1987. Early Archean (3.3-Billion to 3.5-Billion-Year-Old) Microfossils from Warrawoona Group, Australia. Science 237(4810):70-73 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 175541: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.12.2015

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