Ourasphaira giraldae | |
---|---|
Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi (?) |
Genus: | † Ourasphaira |
Species: | †O. giraldae
|
Binomial name | |
†Ourasphaira giraldae Loron et al., 2019
[1]
|
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]
Ourasphaira giraldae | |
---|---|
Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi (?) |
Genus: | † Ourasphaira |
Species: | †O. giraldae
|
Binomial name | |
†Ourasphaira giraldae Loron et al., 2019
[1]
|
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]