Eobacterium

Eobacterium is a possible^[2] genus of extinct bacteria from the Fig Tree Formation in South Africa.^[1][3] It is about 3.1 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known organisms.^[1] The discovery of Eobacterium and other Fig Tree organisms in the 1960s helped prove that life existed over three billion years ago.^[3]

Eobacterium Temporal range: 3100 Ma[1] Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	incertae sedis
Genus:	†Eobacterium Barghoorn and Schopf, 1966
Species:	†E. isolatum
Binomial name
†Eobacterium isolatum Barghoorn and Schopf, 1966