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Earliest known life forms, an Uncommon card
The earliest known life forms on Earth may be as old as 4.1 billion years according to biologically fractionated graphite inside a single zircon grain in the Jack Hills range of Australia.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The earliest evidence of life found in a stratigraphic unit, not just a single mineral grain, is the 3.7 Ga metasedimentary rocks containing graphite from the Isua Supracrustal Belt in Greenland.
- The earliest, directly known life on Earth are stromatolite fossils which have been found in 3.480-billion-year-old geyserite uncovered in the Dresser Formation of the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia.
- Various microfossils of microorganisms have been found in 3.4 Ga rocks, including 3.465-billion-year-old Apex chert rocks from the same Australian craton region, and in 3.42 Ga hydrothermal vent precipitates from Barberton, South Africa.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Earliest known life forms (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NOAA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




