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Science 24 February 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3765, pp. 1003 - 1005
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3765.1003
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Fossil Actinomycetes in Middle Precambrian Glacial Varves

Togwell A. Jackson 1

1 Department of Geology, University of Missouri, Columbia

Fossil actinomycetes and other bacteria have been found in sulfide minerals from "varved" argillites in the middle Precambrian Cobalt Series of Canada. The fossils consist of branched and unbranched nonseptate hyphae and chains of rod-shaped cells. The presence of actinomycetes is consistent with the theory that the argillites are lacustrine desposits.


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