''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
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in the
Canadian Arctic
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.
This fungus may have existed on land
well before plants.
See also
*
2019 in paleontology
Flora Plants
Fungi
Paleomycological research
* Fossil sporocarps indistinguishable from sporocarps of members of the extant genus ''Stemonitis'' are described from the Cretaceous amber from Myanmar by Rikkinen, Grimaldi & Schmidt (2019).
* ...
References
Enigmatic fungus taxa
Fossil taxa described in 2019
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