To achieve this, says Ivarsson, we need to collect more data on
microfossil appearance and location -- but also, on their chemical composition.
Tracking shifts in coca use in the Moche Valley: Analysis of oral health indicators and dental calculus
microfossils. Nawpa Pacha 33(2):193-213.
The problematic
microfossil Jinonicella from the Refrath 1 Borehole (Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline; Ardennes-Rhenish Massif, Germany).
The
microfossils are severely etched with a secondary crystallization apparent on the surface of the crowns.
Probably due to field conditions which did not permit a more refined sampling, we conclude that no sharp contact or physical boundary was encountered on the field to directly point the K/T boundary at a particular bedding plane or surface of unconformity as in similar studies elsewhere [1, 2] but our
microfossil interpretations have located this boundary within a narrow interval of 2 m between samples S4 at 22 m and S6 at 24 m on the Djega outcrop in the Rio del Rey Basin southwestern Cameroon.
Thus, some of the earliest
microfossils are in shallow-marine silicified deposits (3.2 Ga) [20], or they adhere to the detrital quartz grains of their host sediments (3.4 Ga) [21].
The samples were examined for siliceous
microfossils, including diatoms, testate amoebae (Rhizopoda), and chrysophyte cysts.
A
microfossil characterization from South Andean economic plants.
For determination of
microfossil content binocular stereo-microscope (Olympus BX 51) has been used to study selected thin sections.
Harvey, T.H.R, Velez, M., and Butterfield, N.J., 2010,
Microfossil evidence for diverse macroscopic crustaceans in the middle Cambrian Earlie Formation of Saskatchewan (abstract): Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting 2010, Palaeontological Association Newsletter, v.
The flora and fauna of this shale is dominated by the
microfossil groups foraminifera, radiolaria, diatoms, and macrofossil groups like filamentous algae, cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds, fish, birds, ostracod crustaceans, bivalves, gastropods, bryozoans, polychaetes, leaves, and woody plant debris (Buckeridge & Finger 2001).