Journal article
Earth's earliest non-marine eukaryotes
- Abstract:
-
The existence of a terrestrial Precambrian (more than 542-Myr ago) biota has been largely inferred from indirect chemical and geological evidence associated with palaeosols1,2, the weathering of clay minerals and microbially induced sedimentary structures in siliciclastic sediments 4. Direct evidence of fossils within rocks of non-marine origin in the Precambrian is exceedingly rare5,6. The most widely cited example comprises a single report of morphologically simple mineralized tubes and sph...
Expand abstract
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Journal:
- Nature
- Volume:
- 473
- Issue:
- 7348
- Pages:
- 505-509
- Publication date:
- 2011-05-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1476-4687
- ISSN:
-
0028-0836
- Source identifiers:
-
151960
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:151960
- UUID:
-
uuid:86295c72-b6a9-4e68-9fec-46989733eb02
- Local pid:
- pubs:151960
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
Terms of use
- Copyright date:
- 2011
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record