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composition of microfossil remains rather than on taxonomic or ecological distinctions. Siliceous microfossils: Siliceous microfossils include diatoms...

studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristic details. Microfossils are...

Alginite consists of organic-walled marine microfossils, distinct from inorganic (silica)-walled microfossils that comprise diatomaceous earth. Alginite...

organic microfossils, known from the Precambrian to the present. The classification is a catch all term used to refer to any organic microfossils that cannot...

academic "stampede" to explore Precambrian microfossils from similar Proterozoic environments. While older microfossils have since been described, the Gunflint...

large ornamented Ediacaran microfossils is a matter of current research. Like the resting cysts of some animals, these microfossils have three layers in their...

an unusual type of diaspore, a tumbleweed. Spores have been found in microfossils dating back to the mid-late Ordovician period. Two hypothesized initial...

organisms. Fossils include exceptionally well-preserved cyanobacteria microfossils, as well as multiple stromatolite species, including Linella avis and...

Dresser Formation of the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia. Various microfossils of microorganisms have been found in 3.4 Ga rocks, including 3.465-billion-year-old...

years. Most of these Precambrian fossils are microscopic bacteria or microfossils. However, macroscopic fossils are now known from the late Proterozoic...

In the more delicate technique pioneered by Butterfield, individual microfossils are picked from sieved acid residues by hand. The sieving stage removes...

Shale of British Columbia, which was deposited 508 million years ago. Microfossils extend the record of Ottoia throughout the Western Canada Sedimentary...

non–avian dinosaurs, the last marine reptiles, ammonites, and many groups of microfossils. The main outcrops of the Jagüel Formation are found in the inner sectors...

in Guizhou, as one of the oldest beds to contain minutely preserved microfossils, phosphatic fossils that are so characteristic they have given their...

petrogenetic analysis has since shown the setting for the purported microfossils to be hydrothermal and this is widely supported. Consequently, many alternative...

given microstructure being a microfossil: True microfossils should be of relatively abundant occurrence. True microfossils should be of carbonaceous composition...

Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the Fifteenmile Group...

Island, Canada, dates from the end of the Ectasian. It contains the microfossils of the multicellular filaments of Bangiomorpha pubescens (type of red...

amount of sand contained in the clay. Furthermore, the clay consists of microfossils that date from the Pliocene period, about 4.5 million years ago. The...

as algae and Cyanophyceae in particular), algal-related protists and microfossils published using binomial nomenclature. Alexander, Doweld (December 2015)...