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The world's oldest fossils or oily gunk? - Apex Chert - Australia
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The world's oldest fossils or oily gunk? Research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don't contain signs of life Birger Rasmussen and Janet Muhling, PhysOrg, The Conversation. February 2, 2023 The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life Birger Rasmussen and Janet Muhling, The Conversation A 3.5-billion year old Pilbara find is not the oldest fossil: so what is it? David Wacey and Martin Saunders, The conversation, April 2015 The open access paper is Birger Rasmussen et al, 2023, Organic carbon generation in 3.5-billion-year-old basalt-hosted seafloor hydrothermal vent systems, Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add7925 PDF file for above paper Yours, Paul H.-
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Origin of metazoans as recorded by small carbonaceous fossils - 2022 open access review paper
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The comprehensive, open access review paper is: Slater, B.J. and Bohlin, M.S., 2022. Animal origins: The record from organic microfossils. Earth-Science Reviews, 232, no. 104107. open access review paper A related video. Possible sponge fossils in the Tonian of northwestern Canada, Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian University, Virtual Seminars in Precambrian Geology Turner's open access paper is: Turner, E.C., 2021. Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs. Nature, 596(7870), pp.87-91. Yours, Paul H.-
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