Figure 3: Macroscopic fossils from the Gaoyuzhuang Formation. | Nature Communications

Figure 3: Macroscopic fossils from the Gaoyuzhuang Formation.

From: Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

Figure 3

(a) Linear fossil without preservation of either end (a(1)) and fragment of tongue-shaped fossil (a(2)), Qg98017. (b) Linear fossil without preservation of either end (b(1)) and tongue-shaped fossil with longitudinal striations (b(2)), Qg20011; (c,d) Cuneate fossils, 07kg1332 (c), Qg20017 (d). (e) Oblong fossil with possible holdfast, 07 kg1331. (f) Cuneate fossil preserved with differentiated holdfast, Qg98021; (g) linear fossil without preservation of either end. Scale bars, 5 cm (in a,b,g), 20 mm (in c), 40 mm (in d) and 5 mm (in e,f).

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