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Archaea
| Description | Archaea ( (listen) or ar-KEE-É™ or ar-KAY-É™) (singular archaeon) constitute a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebacteria kingdom), but this classification is outmoded. They have been renamed to clarify that archaea are not only not bacteria, but are more closely related to eukaryotes (life whose cells can have a nucleus, including humans) than to real bacteria. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | kingdom (GBIF) unranked clade (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Archaea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Archaea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 7 (100%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | C. R. Woese, O. Kandler, and M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87:4576-4579 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Arkebakterier, Arkéer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Crenarchaeota phylum | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Euryarchaeota phylum | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Nitrosopumilaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Nitrososphaeraceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1990 | Archaea Woese et al. p. 4578 |
| 1996 | Archaea Margulis p. 1074 |
| 2008 | Archaea Taylor et al. p. 1027 |
| 2015 | Archaea Ruggiero et al. p. 33 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
