Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites

Tanja Bosak, Biqing Liang, Sub Sim Min, Alexander P. Petroff

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Conical stromatolites are thought to be robust indicators of the presence of photosynthetic and phototactic microbes in aquatic environments as early as 3.5 billion years ago. However, phototaxis alone cannot explain the ubiquity of disrupted, curled, and contorted laminae in the crests of many Mesoproterozoic, Paleoproterozoic, and some Archean conical stromatolites. Here, we demonstrate that cyanobacterial production of oxygen in the tips of modern conical aggregates creates contorted laminae and submillimeter-to-millimeter-scale enmeshed bubbles. Similarly sized fossil bubbles and contorted laminae may be present only in the crestal zones of some conical stromatolites 2.7 billion years old or younger. This implies not only that cyanobacteria built Proterozoic conical stromatolites but also that fossil bubbles may constrain the timing of the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)10939-10943
頁數5
期刊Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
106
發行號27
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2009 7月 7

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