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Palaeolyngbya

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Palaeolyngbya
Temporal range: Calymmian-Devonian, 1590–400 Ma
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Cyanobacteriota
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Oscillatoriales
Family: Oscillatoriaceae
Genus: †Palaeolyngbya
Schopf, 1968
Type species
†Palaeolyngbya barhoorniana
Schopf, 1968[1]
Species

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Palaeolyngbya (meaning "primitive Lyngbya" or "before Lyngbya") is a cyanobacteria from the Proterozoic. Its cells are roughly 10 microns wide. Fossils have been recorded from the Bitter Springs Group,[1][2] Kushalgarh Formation,[3] Rhynie Chert[4] and Gaoyuzhuang Formation.[5]

List of species

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  • P. baraudensis Mandal et al, 1984[3]
  • P. barhoorniana Schopf, 1968
  • P. catenata Hermann, 1974
  • P. candeda Luo et al, 1983
  • P. distincta Mandal et al, 1984
  • P. elongata Mandal et al, 1984
  • P. kerpii Krings, 2019[4]
  • P. minor Schopf and Blacic, 1971[2]
  • P. sinica Yin and Li, 1978[6]

References

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  1. 1 2 Schopf, J. William (1968). "Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 42 (3): 651–688.
  2. 1 2 Schopf, J. William; Blacic, Jan M. (1971). "New Microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (Late Precambrian) of the North-Central Amadeus Basin, Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 45 (6): 925–960. ISSN 0022-3360.
  3. 1 2 Mandal, J.; Maithy, P.K. (31 December 1984). "Microbiota from the Kushalgarh Formation, Delhi Supergroup, India". Journal of Palaeosciences. 32 ((1-3)): 1–19. doi:10.54991/jop.1984.1358.
  4. 1 2 Krings, Michael (September 2019). "Palaeolyngbya kerpii sp. nov., a large filamentous cyanobacterium with affinities to Oscillatoriaceae from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert". PalZ. 93 (3): 377–386. doi:10.1007/s12542-019-00475-w.
  5. ↑ Shi, Min; Feng, Qinglai; Khan, Maliha Zareen; Zhu, Shixing (December 2017). "An eukaryote-bearing microbiota from the early mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Tianjin, China and its significance". Precambrian Research. 303: 709–726. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.013.
  6. ↑ Yin, Leiming; Li, Z. (January 1978). "Precambrian microfloras of southwest China with reference to their stratigraphic significance". Memoirs of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academica Sinica. 10: 41–108.


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