Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Chroococcaceae
Full reference: J. W. Schopf. 1968. Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, central Australia. Journal of Paleontology 42:651-688
Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae according to B. Amard and J. Bertrand-Sarfati 1997
See also Allison and Awramik 1989, Hofmann 1976, Horodyski and Donaldson 1980, Oehler 1978, Schopf 1968, Sergeev et al. 1995 and Zhang 1985
Sister taxa: Abundacapsa, Aphanocapsaopsis, Aphanocapsites, Archaeophycus, Bisacculoides, Coniunctiophycus, Eoaphanocapsa, Eosynechococcus, Globophycus, Gloeocapsamorpha, Gloeodiniopsis, Gloeotheceopsis, Melasmatosphaera, Nanococcus, Palaeomicrocystis, Praechroococcus, Stipulella, Synechocystis, Tetraphycus, Zosterosphaera
Subtaxa: Sphaerophycus densus Sphaerophycus medium Sphaerophycus parvum Sphaerophycus reticulatum Sphaerophycus tetragonalis
Type: Sphaerophycus parvum
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Tonian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (7: Yukon), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Greenland (5), the Russian Federation (1)
• Stenian of Canada (7: Nunavut)
• Ectasian of Canada (1: Nunavut), the Russian Federation (1)
• Calymmian of Australia (3), China (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Statherian of Australia (3), Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Orosirian of Canada (7: Nunavut), Gabon (1)
Total: 42 collections including 47 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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