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This is a list of all extinct cyanobacteria genera that formed stromatolites.
Collenia
Species
Time period
Location
†C. frequens
Late Proterozoic
Australia
United States[1]
†C. symmetrica
†C. undosa
Conophyton[2][3]
Species
Time period
Location
†C. basalticum
Early Cambrian or Ediacaran (Vendian)
Australia
†C. garganicum australae var. nov.
1080 ± 80mya (Stenian)
Australia
†C. vindhyanensis
India
Inzeria[2]
Species
Time period
Location
†I. intia
Late Proterozoic (Riphean)
Australia
Jurusania[2]
Species
Time period
Location
†J. nisvensis
Late Proterozoic (Riphean)
Australia
Kulparia[2]
Species
Time period
Location
†K. alicia
Late Proterozoic (Riphean)
Australia
†K. kulparensis
Late Proterozoic (Riphean)
Australia
Kussiella[3]
Species
Time period
Location
†K. kussiensis
India
Linella[2]
Species
Time period
Location
†L. avis
Late Proterozoic (Riphean)
Australia
Pilbaria[2][4]
Species
Time period
Location
†P. boetsapia
2.2bya (Paleoproterozoic)
South Africa
†P. deverella
1.7bya (Paleoproterozoic)
Australia
†P. inzeriaformis
2.2bya (Paleoproterozoic)
South Africa
†P. perplexa
1.7 - 2bya (Paleoproterozoic)
Australia
Canada
^"Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 79: 95–96. 1954.
^ abcdefM. R, Walter (1972). "Stromatolites and the biostratigraphy of the Australian Precambrian and Cambrian" (PDF). Special Papers in Palaentology. 11. The Palaeontological Association.
^ abS.M, Mathur (1981). Stromatolites in the Precambrian Vindhyan Supergroup of Central India : A review.
^Grey, Kathleen (1984). Biostratigraphic studies of stromatolites from the Proterozoic Earaheedy Group, Nabberu Basin, Western Australia. ISBN 0724487530.
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Oolites, Stromatolites, Geophysiology, Global Mechanism, Parahistology". In Krumbein, W.E.; Paterson, D.M. & Zavarzin, G.A. (eds.). Fossil and Recent...
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structures produced by biological means; for example, the formation ofstromatolites). However, most sedimentary structures (for example those produced...
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in Stromatolite diversity with widespread blue-green algae colonies and reefs dominating tidal zones of oceans and seas c. 1,300 Ma – Break-up of Columbia...
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represent stromatolite reefs of cyanobacteria, amongst these reefs were some of the oldest known shells in the fossil record, the Cloudina-fauna. Much of the...
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lettuce and large stromatolites) are increasingly used to analyze prehistoric marine and aquatic ecosystems. The study of these fossils is called paleobotany...
Timeline of paleontology 6th century B.C. — The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon argues that fossilsof marine organisms show that...
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organisms. Fossil evidence for cyanobacteria also comes from the presence ofstromatolites in the fossil record deep into the Precambrian. Stromatolites are...
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Australia, India, China and Russia. Listoffossilstromatolites M. R, Walter (1972). "Stromatolites and the biostratigraphy of the Australian Precambrian and...
cells known to science" – a stromatolite reef then known as Cryptozoon algae. In 1899 he discovered the first acritarch fossil cells, a Precambrian algal...
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