Collenia
Sign in to saveCollenia is genus of fossil cyanobacteria that form a particular type of stromatolites.
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- Collenia undosa Minnesota.jpg
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- taxon name
- Collenia
- Commons category
- Collenia
- start time
- 2100000000
- end time
- 2400000000
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/collenia
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Collenia is genus of fossil cyanobacteria that form a particular type of stromatolites.
==Description== Collenia are stromatolites made up of convex layers flattened in the center, forming columnar colonies. The microorganisms involved were likely photosynthetic bacteria expiring oxygen.
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