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Diskagma
''Diskagma'' ("disc-like fragment") is a genus of problematic fossil from a Paleoproterozoic (2200 million years old) paleosol from South Africa, and significant as the oldest likely eukaryote and earliest evidence for life on land. ==Description==
''Diskagma buttonii'' is a small fossil found within the surface horizon of a Vertisol paleosol above the Hekpoort Basalt dated to 2200 million years old. The opacity of the matrix and the size of the fossil meant that its three dimensional structure required imaging by computer-assisted x-ray tomography using a cyclotron source〔 The fossils are shaped like an urn with an apical cup, which is filled with filamentous structures whose exact nature is uncertain due to recrystallization of the matrix under greenschist facies metamorphism. The base of these hollow urns is a system of hollow tubes running over the paleosol and connecting the urns into groups. The walls of ''Diskagma'' have scattered spiny or tubular extensions.
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