Biology:Ourasphaira giraldae
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Short description: Extinct species of fungus
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| Ourasphaira giraldae Loron et al., 2019[1]
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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
- 2019 in paleontology
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 (Science and Business Media LLC) 570: 232–235. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1217-0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31118507.
- ↑ 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 (Elsevier BV) 321: 349–374. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.024. ISSN 0301-9268.
- ↑ Timmer, John (22 May 2019). "Billion-year-old fossils may be early fungus". https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/billion-year-old-fossils-may-be-early-fungus/.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q63992209 entry
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