Eobacterium
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| Eobacterium Temporal range:
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Eobacterium Barghoorn and Schopf, 1966 |
| Species: | †E. isolatum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Eobacterium isolatum Barghoorn and Schopf, 1966
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Eobacterium is a possible[2] genus of extinct bacteria from the Fig Tree Formation in South Africa.[1][3] It is about 3.1 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known organisms.[1] The discovery of Eobacterium and other Fig Tree organisms in the 1960s helped prove that life existed over three billion years ago.[3]
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