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Acritarchs
Temporal range: 1600–0 Ma
Pha.
Proterozoic
Archean
Had.
A supposed Ediacaran embryo contained within an acritarch from the Doushantuo Formation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: incertae sedis
(unranked): Acritarcha
Evitt, 1963
Synonyms
  • Hystrichospheres p.p.
Acritarch from the Weng'an biota
c. 570–609 mya  [1]

Acritarchs are organic microfossils, known from approximately 1800 million years ago to the present. The classification is a catch all term used to refer to any organic microfossils that cannot be assigned to other groups. Their diversity reflects major ecological events such as the appearance of predation and the Cambrian explosion.

  1. ^ Cunningham, John A.; Vargas, Kelly; Yin, Zongjun; Bengtson, Stefan; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2017). "The Weng'an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): An Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms". Journal of the Geological Society. 174 (5): 793–802. Bibcode:2017JGSoc.174..793C. doi:10.1144/jgs2016-142. hdl:1983/d874148a-f20e-498a-97d2-379b3feaa18a.

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Eukaryote

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Eukaryogenesis

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multicellularity. Early eukaryote fossils, from the late Paleoproterozoic, include acritarch microfossils with relatively robust ornate carbonaceous vesicles of Tappania...

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Geologic time scale

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Atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels similar to present day. Acritarchs disappear. Climate initially warm, but later it cools. 72.1 ± 0.2 * Campanian...

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Ediacaran biota

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Doushantuo Formation

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phosphatized microfossils of algae, multicellular thallophytes (seaweeds), acritarchs, ciliates, and cyanophytes, besides adult sponges and adult cnidarians...

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Palynology

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Ottoia

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of small carbonaceous fossils (SCFS) indicates that the late Cambrian acritarch Goniomorpha Yin 1986 represents the teeth of a priapulid worm". Palynology...

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Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale

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are thought to be 551 to 635 million years old or Ediacaran. Ediacaran acritarchs also have many similarities with Glomeromycotan vesicles and spores. It...

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Devonian

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Cryptomonad

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