A Laurentian record of the earliest fossil eukaryotes
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A Laurentian record of the earliest fossil eukaryotes
The oldest evidence of eukaryotes in the fossil record comes from a recurrent assemblage of morphologically differentiated late Paleoproterozoic to early Mesoproterozoic microfossils. Although widely distributed, the principal constituents of this Tappania-DictyosphaeraValeria assemblage have not hitherto been recognized on Laurentia. We have recovered all three taxa from a shallow-water shale ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0091-7613,1943-2682
DOI: 10.1130/g38749.1