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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.
In the 19th century, the boundary was set at time of appearance of the first abundant animal (metazoan) fossils. But several hundred groups (taxa) of metazoa of the earlier Proterozoic era have been identified since systematic study of those forms started in the 1950s.