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Extinct species of fungus
Ourasphaira giraldae is an extinct
process-bearing
multicellular
eukaryotic
microorganism. Corentin Loron argues that it was an early
fungus. It existed approximately a billion years ago during the time of the transition from the
Mesoproterozoic to
Neoproterozoic periods, and was unearthed in the
Amundsen Basin in the
Canadian Arctic.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4] This fungus may have existed on land
well before plants.
[4]
See also
References
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a
b Loron, Corentin C.; François, Camille; Rainbird, Robert H.; Turner, Elizabeth C.; Borensztajn, Stephan; Javaux, Emmanuelle J. (22 May 2019). "Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada".
Nature. 570 (7760).
Science and Business Media LLC: 232–235.
Bibcode:
2019Natur.570..232L.
doi:
10.1038/s41586-019-1217-0.
ISSN
0028-0836.
PMID
31118507.
S2CID
162180486.
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^ Loron, Corentin C.; Rainbird, Robert H.; Turner, Elizabeth C.; Greenman, J. Wilder; Javaux, Emmanuelle J. (2019).
"Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): Diversity and biostratigraphic significance".
Precambrian Research. 321.
Elsevier BV: 349–374.
Bibcode:
2019PreR..321..349L.
doi:
10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.024.
ISSN
0301-9268.
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^ Timmer, John (22 May 2019).
"Billion-year-old fossils may be early fungus".
Ars Technica. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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b
Zimmer, Carl (22 May 2019).
"How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues - A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi reached land long before plants".
The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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