Canopy Flow Analysis Reveals the Advantage of Size in the Oldest Communities of Multicellular Eukaryotes

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Ghisalberti, Marco, Gold, David A., Laflamme, Marc, Clapham, Matthew E., Narbonne, Guy M., Summons, Roger E., Johnston, David T., Jacobs, David K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Article; Canada; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4428146/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24462003; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.017

At Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada, rangeomorph “fronds” dominate the earliest (579–565 million years ago) fossil communities of large (0.1 to 2 m height) multicellular benthic eukaryotes. They lived in low-flow environments, fueled by uptake [1–3] of dissolved reactants (osmotrophy). However,...