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So in answer to your question, the oldest fossils are stromatolites, and the life forms that created those fossils were prokaryotic bacteria and algae like cyanobacteria.
The oldest known fossils, in fact, are cyanobacteria from Archaean rocks of western Australia, dated 3.5 billion years old. This may be somewhat surprising, since the oldest rocks are only a little older: 3.8 billion years old!