#rhyniechert — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/716289/ Giant mystery fossil reveals secrets of whole new form of life that no longer exists #Aberdeenshire #DrSandyHetherington #fossil #LauraCooper #NationalMuseumOfScotland #NationalMuseums #NationalMuseumsScotland #Prototaxites #RhynieChert #SandyHetherington #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Prototaxites
"About 400 million years ago—long before the first giant dinosaurs—a massive and strange organism up to 8 meters long loomed over the Lilliputian plants, mushrooms, and bugs that carpeted the land"
Not a fungus. Not a lichen. Not a plant ...
An unknown branch of multicellular life that went extinct
https://www.science.org/content/article/bizarre-400-million-year-old-fossil-was-unknown-life-form
#fossils #Prototaxites #newFormOfLife #evolutionaryBiology #Edinburgh #Scotland #paleobiology #RhynieChert
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Unveiling Earth's Ancient Mysteries: The Astonishing Rhynie Chert #Fossils https://communities.springernature.com/posts/unveiling-earth-s-ancient-mysteries-the-astonishing-rhynie-chert-fossils
A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the #Devonian Rhynie Chert: Christine Strullu-Derrien et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43276-1
"One #fungal resident of the #RhynieChert, Paleopyrenomycites devonicus, stands out. Described as #Ascomycota, it colonized the ancient plant Asteroxylon mackiei. Yet, the precise role it played – as a saprotroph, parasite, or pathogen – remains a tantalizing mystery."