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Ourasphaira giraldae Temporal range: 1000 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi (?)
Genus:	†Ourasphaira
Species:	†O. giraldae
Binomial name
†Ourasphaira giraldae Loron et al., 2019

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. This fungus may have existed on land well before plants.

See also

• 2019 in paleontology

References

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. 570 (7760). Science and Business Media LLC: 232–235. Bibcode:2019Natur.570..232L. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1217-0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31118507. S2CID 162180486.
2. 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. 321. Elsevier BV: 349–374. Bibcode:2019PreR..321..349L. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.024. ISSN 0301-9268.
3. Timmer, John (22 May 2019). "Billion-year-old fossils may be early fungus". Ars Technica. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
4. ^ 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. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

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