Archaeosphaeroides

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Archaeosphaeroides
Temporal range: Paleoarchean 3600–3200 Ma
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Cyanobacteriota
Class: incertae sedis
Genus: Archaeosphaeroides
J.W.Schopf & E.S.Barghoorn, 1967[1]

Archaeosphaeroides is an extinct genus of bacteria from the Paleoarchean. It is a coccoid cyanobacterium from the Fig Tree Formation of South Africa which dates back to 3,000 million years ago.

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