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Beckspringia communis

Hormogoneae - Nostocales - Nostocaceae

Taxonomy
Beckspringia communis was named by Licari (1978). Its type specimen is thin section C2S0(39) from the Cloud Collection, Biogeology Clean Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 3 of 8/11/68, which is in a Tonian marine chert/dolomite in the Beck Spring Formation of California. It is the type species of Beckspringia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Beckspringia communis Licari p. 779 figs. Pl. 1, figs. 3-6, 7?; Table 2

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RankNameAuthor
Life
Prokaryota
Bacteria
phylumCyanobacteriaStanier 1973
classHormogoneaeThuret 1875
RankNameAuthor
orderNostocalesBorzì 1914
familyNostocaceae
genusBeckspringia
speciescommunis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Beckspringia communis Licari 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterp
Locomotion: stationaryp
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2007-12-04 09:01:31
Modified: 2007-12-04 11:01:31
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Vachard and Aretz 2004

Age range: Tonian or 1000.00000 to 720.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tonian1000.0 - 720.0USA (California) Beckspringia communis (type locality: 208336)