a little paper.

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neat little paper here titled " Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals"

indicating that some precambrian acritarchs appear to be animal in origin...  like the tests of brine shrimp. probably an evolutionary response to surviving periodic anoxia in the oceans...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672526/