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microfossil

[¦mī·krō′fäs·əl]
(paleontology)
A small fossil which is studied and identified by means of the microscope.
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Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium).
Bioarchaeology of the Human Microbiome
Numerous other siliceous microfossils were observed from the Beaver Pond site sediments.
Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a mid-Pliocene fossil site in the High Arctic (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut): evidence of an ancient peatland with beaver activity
Pamplona marls are rich in microfossils but the macrofauna is poor.
Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)
Laboratory goals and considerations for multiple microfossil extraction in archaeology.
Reconstruyendo las practicas fumatorias del sitio La Granja (130 A 1000 D.C., valle del rio Cachapoal, VI Region, Chile Central) a partir de los microfosiles
Early Palaeozoic microfossils of the genera Coelocerodontus Ethington, 1959 and Viirodus Dubinina, 2000, treated hitherto as conodonts, in fact strongly differ from both euconodonts and paraconodonts.
New group of the Early Palaeozoic conodont-like fossils
Dr Paola Moffa-Sanchez said: "In this study we show this relationship is also at play on longer time-scales and the large ocean changes, recorded in microfossils, may have helped sustain this atmospheric pattern.
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Chapter 13 provides an overview of the microfossils, many of these organic-walled plankton, from the deposits.
The Cambrian Explosion: how much bang for the buck?
The middle of the sequence (Miocene) is similar to the previous one but it contains siliceous microfossils and a higher content of carbonate.
Estratigrafia sismica de la Cuenca los Cayos
An absence of aquatic siliceous microfossils suggest that during this period the bog was emergent.
Geological sciences
2000: A new techique for retrieving calcareous microfossils from lithified lime deposits.
Foraminiferos bentonicos aglutinados de los depositos turbiditicos. Area Napoles, Sur de San Marcos de Tarrazu, Costa Rica
Photomicrograph of microfossils were taken and presented with full labeling.
Microfaunal Assemblage of the Sui Main Limestone from Sui Gas Field, Pakistan
Acid-extracted microfossils from the 'Little Bear biota' of the Mackenzie Mountains reveal important details of problematic groups including chancelloriids and hyolithids, and provide direct evidence of Cambrian diets in the form of faecal strings.
Great Canadian Lagerstatten 2. Macro- and microfossils of the Mount Cap Formation (Early and Middle Cambrian, northwest territories)

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