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Extinct genus of bacteria
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Obruchevella
Temporal range: Mesoproterozoic–Cambrian Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Genus: Obruchevella
Reitlinger, 1948

Obruchevella is a helical microfossil known from the Burgess Shale and Cambrian sites in China, as well as later sites dating to as late as the Devonian. It is also known from Owk shales, Vindhyas, Tal Formations, Russia, Greenland, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Alaska and so on.

References

  1. Mankiewicz, C. (1992). "Obruchevella and Other Microfossils in the Burgess Shale: Preservation and Affinity". Journal of Paleontology. 66 (5): 717–729. Bibcode:1992JPal...66..717M. doi:10.1017/s0022336000020758. S2CID 133415324.
  2. Xueliang, S. (2009). "Obruchevella from the early Cambrian Meishucun Stage of the Meishucun section, Jinning, Yunnan, China". Geological Magazine. 121 (3): 179–183. doi:10.1017/S0016756800028235. S2CID 128759007.
  3. Singh, Veeru. "Record of Obruchevella from the Mesoproterozoic sediments of India".
Taxon identifiers
Obruchevella
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