Geobacillus jurassicus

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|taxon = Geobacillus jurassicus

|authority = Nazina et al. 2005 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012

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Geobacillus jurassicus is a thermophilic bacterium first isolated from a high-temperature petroleum reservoir.{{cite journal|last1=Nazina|first1=Tamara N.|last2=Sokolova|first2=Diana Sh.|last3=Grigoryan|first3=Alexander A.|last4=Shestakova|first4=Nataliya M.|last5=Mikhailova|first5=Ekaterina M.|last6=Poltaraus|first6=Andrei B.|last7=Tourova|first7=Tatiyana P.|last8=Lysenko|first8=Anatolii M.|last9=Osipov|first9=George A.|last10=Belyaev|first10=Sergey S.|title=Geobacillus jurassicus sp. nov., a new thermophilic bacterium isolated from a high-temperature petroleum reservoir, and the validation of the Geobacillus species|journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology|volume=28|issue=1|year=2005|pages=43–53|issn=0723-2020|doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2004.09.001}}{{cite journal|last1=Coorevits|first1=A.|last2=Dinsdale|first2=A. E.|last3=Halket|first3=G.|last4=Lebbe|first4=L.|last5=De Vos|first5=P.|last6=Van Landschoot|first6=A.|last7=Logan|first7=N. A.|title=Taxonomic revision of the genus Geobacillus: emendation of Geobacillus, G. stearothermophilus, G. jurassicus, G. toebii, G. thermodenitrificans and G. thermoglucosidans (nom. corrig., formerly 'thermoglucosidasius'); transfer of Bacillus thermantarcticus to the genus as G. thermantarcticus comb. nov.; proposal of Caldibacillus debilis gen. nov., comb. nov.; transfer of G. tepidamans to Anoxybacillus as A. tepidamans comb. nov.; and proposal of Anoxybacillus caldiproteolyticus sp. nov.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=62|issue=Pt 7|year=2011|pages=1470–1485|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.030346-0|pmid=21856988|doi-access=free}} It is aerobic, gram-positive, rod-shaped, moderately thermophilic, chemoorganotrophic, and endospore-forming, with type species DS1^T (=VKM B-2301^T, =DSM 15726^T).