Two-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Reveal Strange And Puzzling Forms

[Oxytropidoceras]

Two-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Reveal Strange and Puzzling Forms

by Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, January 29, 2015

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2015/01/29/two-billion-year-old-fossils-reveal-strange-and-puzzling-forms/

The papers are:

El Albani, A., S. Bengtson, D. E. Canfield, A. Riboulleau, B. C.

Rollion and others, 2014, The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota:

Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity. PLoS ONE

vol. 9, no. 6, article no. e99438.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099438

El Albani, A., S. Bengtson, D. E. Canfield, A. Bekker, R.

Macchiarelli, A. Mazurier, E. U. Hammarlundm P. Boulvais,

J. J. Dupuy, C. Fontaine, F. T. Fürsich, F. Gauthier-Lafaye,

P. Janvier, E. Javaux, F. O. Ossa, A. C. Pierson-Wickmann,

A. Riboulleau, P. Sardini, D. Vachard, M. Whitehouse,

and A. Meunier, 2010, Large colonial organisms with

coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr

ago. Nature. vol. 466, no. 7302, pp. 100-104.

Abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7302/full/nature09166.html

PDF file: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/2011-10-21/Large%20colonial%20organisms%20with%20coordinated%20growth%20in%20oxygenated%20environments%202.1%20Gyrs%20ago.pdf

Francevillian biota - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francevillian_biota

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited January 30, 2015 by Oxytropidoceras

[BobWill]

Amazing stuff! Hope I look that good when I'm that old

Thanks for posting.