I am surprise that a thread with this name does not exist yet, considering people bring up ancient/prehistoric organisms all the time. This includes ancient organisms from all clades/Kingdoms of Life.
You already know one of my favorite ancient organisms [1], so I will go with another favorite organism - Stromatolites! Without them, we would not have oxygen in the atmosphere, and they still exist in some places after billions of years!
Stromatolytes are made of three layers of bacteria. Cyanobacteria make up the top layer, while facultative aerobes make up the buffer brown layer that shield the anaerobic purple sulfur bacteria below. The by-product at the bottom of the mat, for stromatolites, is basically rock, which is why these structures exist. At least, this is what I remember about them.
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aah31415
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Yeah. So as said, they arenβt the fossils of cyanobacteria themselves, mote like foorprints of theirs.
aah31415
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Through the conditions where the biota ended do line up with a possibly life-thwarting event (pretty sure a major glaciation event and/or oxygen level drop).
