Tonian carbonaceous compressions indicate that Horodyskia is one of the oldest multicellular and coenocytic macro-organisms

Abstract Macrofossils with unambiguous biogenic origin and predating the one-billion-year-old multicellular fossils Bangiomorpha and Proterocladus interpreted as crown-group eukaryotes are quite rare. Horodyskia is one of these few macrofossils, and it extends from the early Mesoproterozoic Era to t...

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Main Authors: Guangjin Li, Lei Chen, Ke Pang, Qing Tang, Chengxi Wu, Xunlai Yuan, Chuanming Zhou, Shuhai Xiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04740-2