<sod>One of the oldest fossils identified as a red alga is also the oldest fossil [[eukaryote]] that belongs to a specific modern [[taxon]]. ''Bangiomorpha pubescens'', a multicellular fossil from arctic [[Canada]], strongly resembles the modern red alga ''Bangia'' despite occurring in rocks dating to 1.2 billion years ago.<ref name="butterfield">{{cite journal |author=N. J. Butterfield |year=2000 |title=''Bangiomorpha pubescens'' n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes |journal=[[Paleobiology (journal)|Paleobiology]] |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=386–404 |url=http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/386 |doi=10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0386:BPNGNS>2.0.CO;2 |issn=0094-8373}}</ref><eod>
<sod>One of the oldest fossils identified as a red alga is also the oldest fossil [[eukaryote]] that belongs to a specific modern [[taxon]]. ''[[Bangiomorpha pubescens]]'', a multicellular fossil from arctic [[Canada]], strongly resembles the modern red alga ''Bangia'' despite occurring in rocks dating to 1.2 billion years ago.<ref name="butterfield">{{cite journal |author=N. J. Butterfield |year=2000 |title=''Bangiomorpha pubescens'' n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes |journal=[[Paleobiology (journal)|Paleobiology]] |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=386–404 |url=http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/386 |doi=10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0386:BPNGNS>2.0.CO;2 |issn=0094-8373}}</ref><eod>