… Blackwell Publishing and the Natural History Museum London are the publishers of
PaleoBase: Microfossils, a powerful illustrated database of microfossils designed for student use. …

MICROFOSSILS … MICROFOSSILS … 1 Why study microfossils? 1 The cell 1 …

Ma is a common scientific abbreviation for Megayears ¼ one million (106) years derived from
the Latin Mega-annum. Note that the Latin accusative, annum, expresses an absolute age (…

… of Archean microfossils, five principal criteria must be satisfied (3). The putative microfossils
… Among recent such examples was the discovery of authentic microfossils in rocks evidently …

… organic microfossils. We constructed a global database comprising 394 studies of organic
microfossils … archives of organic microfossils. Scrutiny of the current record reveals that organic …

… Although many critical morphologic features may not be reflected in the outlines of microfossils,
our perception of the differences between shapes is still largely determined by outline (…

… detection of microfossils) and biosedimentological interpretation of structures like … The
earliest microscopically recognisable microfossils were reported from the 3.49 Ga Dresser …

Publisher Summary Transfer functions, in a broad sense, are powerful methods that allow
complex biological assemblages analyzed by micropaleontologists to be translated into …

… contain a total of 40 morphotypes of described microfossils. Among the oldest of these putatively
… Such data, together with the presence of stromatolites, microfossils, and carbon isotopic …

… We feel that it is correct to refer to the Tuscarora microfossils as Llandoverian in age. …
are made in this region, the microfossils from this locality are considered Wenlockian in age. …