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Leiosphaeridia

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Extinct genus of protists

Leiosphaeridia
Temporal range: Statherian–Recent Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: incertae sedis
(unranked): Acritarcha
Genus: Leiosphaeridia
Eisenack (1958)
Species
  • Approximately 50 species.

Leiosphaeridia is an extinct genus of algae or acritarchs. Around 50 species are known, ranging from the Statherian of Australia seemingly to the present.

See also

References

  1. Riedman, Leigh Anne; Porter, Susannah M.; Lechte, Maxwell A.; dos Santos, Angelo; Halverson, Galen P. (November 2023). "Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia". Papers in Palaeontology. 9 (6). doi:10.1002/spp2.1538.
Taxon identifiers
Leiosphaeridia
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