Full reference: E. S. Barghoorn. 1965. Taxonomic names, in Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert. Science 147:563-577
Belongs to Gunflintia according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997
See also Barghoorn 1965, Cloud and Licari 1972, Knoll and Simonson 1981, Knoll et al. 1988, Muir 1976, Walter et al. 1976 and Xu 1984
Sister taxa: Gunflintia barghoornii, Gunflintia grandis, Gunflintia magna, Gunflintia oehlerae
Type specimen: Harvard Univ. 58263, Slide Sch-72. Its type locality is 6.4 km west of Schreiber, which is in an Orosirian basinal (siliceous) chert in the Gunflint Chert Formation of Canada.
Distribution:
• Calymmian of China (1 collection)
• Statherian of Australia (1)
• Orosirian of Australia (1), Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec), Gabon (1), United States (1: Minnesota)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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