{{Short description|Extinct genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = <br/>Paleoarchean, ~{{long_fossil_range|3481|3225|ref=<ref name=PBDBTWO>{{Cite PBDB|collection|227837|North Pole Dome, locality A (Paleoarchean of Australia)}}</ref><ref name=PBDBTHREE>{{Cite PBDB|collection|227612|Daylight Mine, Barberton (Paleoarchean of South Africa)}}</ref>}} | taxon = Archaeosphaeroides | authority = Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967<ref name=PBDB>{{Cite PBDB|taxon|462636|Archaeosphaeroides}}</ref> | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis'''''<ref name=PBDB/> | type_species_authority = Schopf and Barghoorn, 1967 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=PBDB/><ref name=Schopf1983>{{cite journal |last1=Awramik |first1=S. M. |last2=Schopf |first2=J. W. |last3=Walter |first3=M. R. |author1-link=Stanley Awramik |author2-link=J. William Schopf |title=Filamentous fossil bacteria from the Archean of Western Australia |journal=Precambrian Research |date=June 1983 |volume=20 |issue=2-4 |pages=357–374 |doi=10.1016/0301-9268(83)90081-5 |issn=0301-9268 |bibcode=1983PreR...20..357A |s2cid=140716823 |ref=Schopf1983}}</ref> | subdivision = {{Bold species list | {{extinct}}Archaeosphaeroides pilbarensis | Schopf, 1983 }} }}
'''''Archaeosphaeroides''''' is a fossil genus of probable<ref name=IRMNG>{{IRMNG|1241820|''Archaeosphaeroides'' J.W. Schopf & E.S. Barghoorn, 1967 †|14 February 2026}}</ref> coccoid cyanobacterium known from microfossils discovered in the Fig Tree Group of South Africa, as well as the Warrawoona Group of Western Australia.<ref name=PBDB/><ref name=Schopf1983/><ref name=SchopfandBarghoorn1967>{{cite journal|title=Alga-Like Fossils from the Early Precambrian of South Africa|journal=Science|date=1967 |pmid=17730741 |last1=Schopf |first1=J. W. |last2=Barghoorn |first2=E. S. |author1-link=J. William Schopf |author2-link=Elso Barghoorn |volume=156 |issue=3774 |pages=508–512 |doi=10.1126/science.156.3774.508 |bibcode=1967Sci...156..508S |issn=0036-8075 |eissn=1095-9203 |s2cid=24428995 |jstor=1721235 |ref=SchopfandBarghoorn1967}}</ref> It lived during the Paleoarchean era, around {{Gigaannum|3.481|3.225}}.<ref name=PBDBTWO/><ref name=PBDBTHREE/>
It contains two species, '''''A. barbertonensis''''' (the type species<ref name=PBDB/>) and '''''A. pilbarensis'''''.<ref name=PBDB/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * [https://books.google.com/books?id=dWyHD4yh_oEC&dq=archaeosphaeroides+ediacaran&pg=PA165 G Bignot, 1983: ''Elements of Micropalaeontology'', p.165] * Lessem, D., & Sovak, S., 1999: ''Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals'' *{{cite book |last1=Allaby |first1=Michael |title=A Dictionary of Earth Sciences |edition=3rd |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-172661-3 |page=27}}
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Category:Bacteria genera † Category:Prehistoric bacteria Category:Fossil taxa described in 1967 Category:Fossils of South Africa Category:Fossils of Australia Category:Microfossils
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