Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Chroococcaceae
Full reference: H. J. Hofmann. 1976. Precambrian microflora, Belcher Islands, Canada: significance and systematics. Journal of Paleontology 50:1040-1073
Belongs to Eosynechococcus according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997
See also Hofmann 1976 and Hofmann and Jackson 1991
Sister taxa: Eosynechococcus amadeus, Eosynechococcus brevis, Eosynechococcus grandis, Eosynechococcus moorei
Type specimen: GSC 43588. Its type locality is GSC 43588, north end of Churchill Sound, Belcher Islands, which is in an Orosirian peritidal dolomite in the Kasegalik Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Tonian of Greenland (2 collections)
• Stenian of Canada (2: Nunavut)
• Orosirian of Canada (1: Nunavut), Gabon (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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