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- A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between 0.001 mm and 1 mm in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy...
- studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristic details. Microfossils are...
- Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the Fifteenmile Group...
- Large ornamented Ediacaran microfossils are microscopic acritarchs, usually over 100 μm in diameter, which are common in sediments of the Ediacaran period...
- an unusual type of diaspore, a tumbleweed. Spores have been found in microfossils dating back to the mid-late Ordovician period. Two hypothesized initial...
- In the more delicate technique pioneered by Butterfield, individual microfossils are picked from sieved acid residues by hand. The sieving stage removes...
- years. Most of these Precambrian fossils are microscopic bacteria or microfossils. However, macroscopic fossils are now known from the late Proterozoic...
- Pakupaku is an extinct genus of vase-shaped microfossil from the Tonian Black River Dolomite of Australia. The type species is Pakupaku kabin. Riedman...
- used for small animals (in vivo scanners), biomedical samples, foods, microfossils, and other studies for which minute detail is desired. The first X-ray...
- Acritarchs are organic microfossils, known from approximately 1800 million years ago to the present.[inconsistent] The classification is a catch all term...