China Claims Find The World's Oldest Multicellular Eukariota Fossil

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JAKARTA - Chinese archaeological researchers discovered the oldest multicellular eukaryota fossil in the Yanshan Mountains in northern China, according to state media reports.

A number of multicellular eukaryote fossils were found to be 1.63 billion years ago, making them the world's oldest fossil record, Xinhua News reported by ANTARA, Saturday, January 27.

The newly discovered fossils consisted of large uniseriat filaments and were unramified with a cell diameter of up to 190 micrometers, according to the report.

According to details published in the journal Science Advances this week, the well-maintained microfosil called Qingsania magnifica was found in the Yanshan Mountains in northern China.

The discovery of researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is another achievement because previously in 2016 they also discovered a decimeter-sized multicellular eukaryota fossil in the region, according to the news agency.