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Kakabekia

Kakabekia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Genus: Kakabekia
E.S. Barghoorn & S.A. Tyler, 1965
Type species
Kakabekia umbellata
Barghoorn & Tyler
Species
  • K. barghoorniana
    S.M.Siegel
  • 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.



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