Coccogoneae - Chroococcales - Chroococcaceae

Full reference: A. V. Nyberg and J. W. Schopf. 1984. Microfossils in stromatolitic cherts from the Upper Proterozoic Min'yar Formation, southern Ural Mountains, USSR. Journal of Paleontology 58:738-772

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae according to A. V. Nyberg and J. W. Schopf 1984

Sister taxa: Abundacapsa, Aphanocapsaopsis, Aphanocapsites, Archaeophycus, Bisacculoides, Coniunctiophycus, Eosynechococcus, Globophycus, Gloeocapsamorpha, Gloeodiniopsis, Gloeotheceopsis, Melasmatosphaera, Nanococcus, Palaeomicrocystis, Praechroococcus, Sphaerophycus, Stipulella, Synechocystis, Tetraphycus, Zosterosphaera

Subtaxa: Eoaphanocapsa oparinii

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Type: Eoaphanocapsa oparinii

Ecology: stationary "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Zilim River, upstream from Bakeyevo ( of Russian Federation)

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