Definition of Microfossil. Meaning of Microfossil. Synonyms of Microfossil

- 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...
- In the more delicate technique pioneered by Butterfield, individual microfossils are picked from sieved acid residues by hand. The sieving stage removes...
- 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...
- Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the Fifteenmile Group...
- evidence for photosynthesis. The black layers in the sequence contain microfossils that are 1.9 to 2.3 billion years in age. Stromatolite colonies of cyanobacteria...
- Pakupaku is an extinct genus of vase-shaped microfossil from the Tonian Black River Dolomite of Australia. The type species is Pakupaku kabin. Riedman...
- Shale of British Columbia, which was deposited 508 million years ago. Microfossils extend the record of Ottoia throughout the Western Canada Sedimentary...
- evolutionary history of life. In this scientific quest, macrofossils, microfossils and trace fossils are typically analyzed. However, the 21st-century biochemical...