Archaeosphaeroides
| Archaeosphaeroides Temporal range:
Paleoarchean, ~ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteriota |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Archaeosphaeroides Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967 |
| Type species | |
| †Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967
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Archaeosphaeroides is a fossil genus of probable coccoid cyanobacterium known from microfossils discovered in the Fig Tree Group of South Africa, as well as the Warrawoona Group of Western Australia. It lived during the Paleoarchean era, around 3.481–3.225 Ga.
It contains two species, A. barbertonensis (the type species) and A. pilbarensis.