Kakabekia

Kakabekia
Scientific classification
Genus: Kakabekia
E.S. Barghoorn & S.A. Tyler, 1965
Type species
Kakabekia barghoorniana
Bargh. 1965
Species
  • K. barghoorniana
    Bargh. 1965
  • K. edouardii
    Locq. 1979
  • K. eduardi
    Locq et al.
  • K. flabelliformis
    P.K. Maithy et al.
  • K. rarea
    P.K. Maithy et al.
  • K. umbellata
    Bargh. 1965

Kakabekia is an about two billion-year-old fossil genus of microorganism from the Gunflint Chert. Kakabekia barghoorniana is a living fossil of this genus.[1]

References

  1. ↑ B. Z. Siegel and S. M. Siegel: Biology of the Precambrian Genus Kakabekia: New Observations on Living Kakabekia barghoorniana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1970 October; 67(2): 1005–1010. PMC283305

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