The next sci-fi author that wants to talk about alternate origin stuff should use Xenophyophorea. They're a deep sea organism that grows up to 20cm (8") but they're a single cell. They make specialized shells made selectively of minerals including uranium. We don't know how they reproduce and we can't find them in the fossil record.
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In response to this postnow those last two are just a matter of not having observed them enough yet (they hang out half a kilometer down at shallowest!) and we expect they probably reproduce like some other Foraminifera where they use alternation of generations, but we currently don't know for sure.
Clearly it's a perfect chance to write a story about how they're actually biological resource miners sent to collect the volatiles from earth's oceans
after all, we can't find them in the fossil record (though there's theories that some other things we see might be very different ancestors of them), clearly they just showed up shortly before they were first discovered in the 1880s.
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