Palaeolyngbya

Palaeolyngbya; Temporal range: Calymmian-Devonian, 1590–400 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Cyanobacteria
Class:	Cyanophyceae
Order:	Oscillatoriales
Family:	Oscillatoriaceae
Genus:	†Palaeolyngbya; Schopf, 1968
Type species
	†Palaeolyngbya barhoorniana; Schopf, 1968
Species
	P. baraudensis Mandal et al, 1984; P. barhoorniana Schopf, 1968; P. catenata Hermann, 1974; P. distincta Mandal et al, 1984; P. elongata Mandal et al, 1984; P. kerpii Krings, 2019; P. minor Schopf and Blacic, 1971; P. sinica Yin and Li, 1978;

Palaeolyngbya (meaning "primitive Lyngbya" or "before Lyngbya") is a cyanobacteria from the Proterozoic. Its cells are roughly 10 microns wide. Fossils have been recorded from the Bitter Springs Group,^[5]^[3] Kushalgarh Formation,^[1] Rhynie Chert^[2] and Gaoyuzhuang Formation.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Mandal, J.; Maithy, P.K. (31 December 1984). "Microbiota from the Kushalgarh Formation, Delhi Supergroup, India". Journal of Palaeosciences. 32 ((1-3)): 1–19. doi:10.54991/jop.1984.1358.
^ ^a ^b Krings, Michael (September 2019). "Palaeolyngbya kerpii sp. nov., a large filamentous cyanobacterium with affinities to Oscillatoriaceae from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert". PalZ. 93 (3): 377–386. doi:10.1007/s12542-019-00475-w.
^ ^a ^b Schopf, J. William; Blacic, Jan M. (1971). "New Microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (Late Precambrian) of the North-Central Amadeus Basin, Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 45 (6): 925–960. ISSN 0022-3360.
^ Yin, Leiming; Li, Z. (January 1978). "Precambrian microfloras of southwest China with reference to their stratigraphic significance". Memoirs of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academica Sinica. 10: 41–108.
^ ^a ^b Schopf, J. William (1968). "Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 42 (3): 651–688.
^ Shi, Min; Feng, Qinglai; Khan, Maliha Zareen; Zhu, Shixing (December 2017). "An eukaryote-bearing microbiota from the early mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Tianjin, China and its significance". Precambrian Research. 303: 709–726. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.013.

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