Macroscopic multicellular organisms from 1.56 billion years ago

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2. As a lower division undergrad I cut mounted and surveyed slides of the Beck Springs Dolomite algals

They were roughly 1.2 to 1.4 billion years old mostly eucaryotic algal micro fossils, and the occasional WTF's that my professor told me that I was years from even guessing at what they could be. I/we were hoping to catch them in the process of cellular division, confirming that they were in fact fossils and not non biologic artifacts.

I transferred before I; went blind, ground my fingers literally to the bone, or went nuts with the tedium that is the core of much research.

Looking back.. good times.