Rothpletzella

Rothpletzella is a genus of calcimicrobe known from the Silurian of Gotland, the Devonian of France, as well as the Ordovician of China.^[3][4][2] It has been hypothesised to be a cyanobacterium, and shares morphological similarities with extant cyanobacteria.^[5] The genus is named in honor of August Rothpletz.^[6]

Rothpletzella Temporal range: 516.0–155.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Cyanobacteriota
Class:	incertae sedis
Genus:	†Rothpletzella Wood, 1948[1]
Type species
Sphaerocodium gotlandicum Rothpletz, 1908
Species
†R. gotlandica (Rothpletz) Wood, 1948 †R. longita Liu, Wu, Yang & Riding, 2016[2] †R. munthei (Rothpletz) Wood, 1948 †R. straeleni (Lecomte, 1939)
Synonyms[2]
Coactilum Maslov, 1956