Paleontologists Find One-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Fungi in Canada0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 24, 2019
An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation in Arctic Canada. These multicellular organic-walled microfossils are more than half a billion years older than previously reported occurrences of fungi.