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1 billion-year-old cell contents preserved in monazite and xenotime

Exceptional microfossil preservation, whereby sub-cellular details of an organism are conserved, remains extremely rare in the Precambrian rock record. We here report the first occurrence of exceptional cellular preservation by the rare earth element (REE) phosphates monazite and xenotime. This occu...

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Autores principales: Wacey, David, Sirantoine, Eva, Saunders, Martin, Strother, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6588638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31227773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45575-4