Bangiomorpha

Bangiomorpha
Temporal range: 1047Ma[1] +13/–17 Ma
Scientific classification
(unranked):Archaeplastida
Division:Rhodophyta
Class:Bangiophyceae
Order:Bangiales
Family:Bangiaceae
Genus:Bangiomorpha
Butterfield
Species: B. pubescens
Binomial name
Bangiomorpha pubescens
Butterfield

Bangiomorpha pubescens is a red alga.[2] It is the first known sexually reproducing organism, and the first complex multicellular organism. A multicellular fossil of Bangiomorpha pubescens was recovered from the Hunting Formation in Somerset Island, Canada that strongly resembles the modern red alga Bangia despite occurring in rocks dating to 1,047 million years ago.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gibson, Timothy M; Shih, Patrick M; Cumming, Vivien M; Fischer, Woodward W; Crockford, Peter W; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W; Wörndle, Sarah; Creaser, Robert A; Rainbird, Robert H; Skulski, Thomas M; Halverson, Galen P (2017). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis". Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1.
  2. ↑ Nicholas J. Butterfield (2000). "Bangiomorpha pubescens n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes". Paleobiology. 26 (3): 386–404. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0386:BPNGNS>2.0.CO;2.
  3. ↑ Gibson, Timothy M; Shih, Patrick M; Cumming, Vivien M; Fischer, Woodward W; Crockford, Peter W; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W; Wörndle, Sarah; Creaser, Robert A; Rainbird, Robert H; Skulski, Thomas M; Halverson, Galen P (2017). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis". Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1.


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