They lived at roughly the same time - Grypania in what is now the northern United States, the new fossils in Gabon.

它们几乎生活在同一年代。卷曲藻生活在今天美国北部地区，而这一新发现化石的物种生活在加蓬。

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Grypania may have been either a bacterial colony or a eukaryote - an organism with specialized cells, enclosed in a membrane.

卷曲藻可能是一个菌落，或者一种真核生物——其包裹在细胞膜内的细胞功能已经出现分化的生物体。

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But it was another 1.4 billion years before the first truly multicellular organism, called Grypania spiralis, appears in the fossil record.

但这之后又经过了14亿年才出现了最早的多细胞生命体——卷曲藻(Grypania)的化石记录。

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