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