If we suppose the continental - tectonic cycle is of the order of 500 Myrs, and there wasn't
much multicellular life before the Cambrian, that gives us a kind of time limit within which we might look.
Not exact matches
The spectacular finds, publishing on 14 March in the open access journal PLOS Biology, indicate that advanced
multicellular life evolved
much earlier than previously thought.
Large
multicellular eukaryotic organisms became common
much later, about 600 million years ago, near the transition to the Phanerozoic Era, the «time of visible
life.»