The genus is named after Rafat Azmi, an Indian paleontologist who controversially discovered other fossils in the same area.
Some microfossils as well as small shelly fossils were first described by Rafat Azmi in 1998 from Rohtasgarh limestone,[1] and he described them as Cambrian presumably based on conventional ideas on the origin of life.
[4] The Vindhyan region is made of older rocks and the presence of fossils raised considerable interest and further studies were carried out and in 2017, these were announced as clear and unquestionably traces of living organisms.
[5] The 2017 studies were based on visits to sites in central India and fresh collections were made by Swedish researchers led by Stefan Bengtson.
[4] The 2017 studies visualized the filamentous structures using Synchrotron-Radiation X-ray Tomographic Microscopy (SRXTM) renderings and attempted to place the affinities of the life-forms as shown by the evidence.