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microfossil::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | fossil |
Examples of microfossil
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Even microfossil data can be unreliable if there are hiatuses in the fossil record.
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There is also a case for a fungal affinity for the enigmatic microfossil Ornatifilum.
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It is only the microfossil pollen and algae that can tell us this.
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New excavations and a growing collection of plant microfossil remains rapidly adds pieces to this puzzle.
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A typical microfossil study will involve identification of a few hundred specimens from each of ten to a hundred samples.
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The microfossil species digitized by the U of A's VLRM prototype were found in rock known by geologists to be 60 million years old.
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Larger animals are too scarce in the fossil record for good statistics, so paleontologists have analyzed microfossil extinctions.
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Phytoliths are another type of plant microfossil that is preserved for thousands of years and can be used to distinguish domesticated from wild maize.
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Six years ago, the Brandywine Hundred fossil dealer picked up that microfossil in dirt that had been brought to the surface by harvester ants in Nebraska's Badlands.
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- A fossil that must be studied microscopically
- Micropaleontology (also sometimes spelled as micropalaeontology) is that branch of paleontology which studies microfossils.
- (Microfossils) Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. ...
- (Microfossils) Fossils evidence of microscopic organisms, often single cells including bacteria, preserved in the rock. These are seen by cutting thin sections through the rock and examining the sections with a microscope.
- A very small fossil, best studied with the aid of a microscope
