Palaeoecology Of A Billion-Year-Old Nonmarine Cyanobacterium From The Torrido…

A new chroococcalean cyanobacterium is described from approximately 1-billion-year-old non-marine deposits of the Torridonian Group of Scotland and the Nonesuch Formation of Michigan, USA. Individual cells of the new microfossil, Eohalothece lacustrina gen. et sp. nov., are associated with benthic microbial biofilms, but the majority of samples are recovered in palynological preparations in the…