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A well-preserved microbial assemblage has been found in Paleoproterozoic cherty stromatolites from the 2000 Ma old Franceville Group, Gabon. This assemblage contains coccoids and star-like forms, filaments and budding tubular forms. These various forms are mostly of cyanobacterial affinity, and among them nostocalean akinetes (Archaeoellipsoides) are reported, for the first time, from rocks older...
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