Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Chroococcaceae
Full reference: A. H. Knoll and S. Golubic. 1979. Anatomy and taphonomy of a Precambrian algal stromatolite. Precambrian Research 10:115-151
Belongs to Eosynechococcus according to V. N. Sergeev 1994
See also Knoll and Golubic 1979 and Nyberg and Schopf 1984
Sister taxa: Eosynechococcus brevis, Eosynechococcus grandis, Eosynechococcus medius, Eosynechococcus moorei
Type specimen: Harvard Univ. 60203, TBS-22-1B. Its type locality is Ellery Creek, which is in a Tonian peritidal chert in the Bitter Springs Formation of Australia.
Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Tonian of Australia (1 collection), Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Ectasian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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