A compression fossil is a fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone physical compression. While it is uncommon to find animals preserved...
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Fairyfly (section Fossil record)
maskelli. Fairyflies are well represented in fossil amber inclusions, copal, and compression fossils. Their fossils have been found from the Early Cretaceous...
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Creek fossil beds of Illinois, US, are among the best documented examples of such mineralization. Compression fossils, such as those of fossil ferns,...
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different place or organization In paleontology, one half of a split compression fossil Counterpart International, a U.S.-based development charity Counterpart...
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Douglas Lake Member (section Fossils)
considered this site as terrestrial environment with plant fossils. In 2019, he claimed compression fossils of a variety of non-vascular land plants, described...
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Sinuiju Formation (section Fossil content)
pygostyle. Frogs have also been found in the formation. Numerous compression fossils of insects have also been found. Fish Amphibians Pterosaurs Dinosaurs...
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Huainan biota (section Fossil Description)
Xuan; Tang, Feng; Liu, Hui (2023-08-01). "Macroscopic carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North...
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earliest known occurrences are of compression fossils found in the Ypresian Allenby Formation and mummified fossils found in the Late Eocene Buchanan...
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Rosamygale (category Fossils of France)
the two main divisions of Mygalomorphae. Rosamygale is known from compression fossils consisting of brown-coloured organic cuticle remains of several juvenile...
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Pleuromeia (category Fossil taxa described in 1852)
Fossils of Pleuromeia sternbergi (A) Cast of stem (B-C) compression fossil of strobilus with sporophylls, (D-F) compression fossil of stem showing rhomboidal...
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Sphingidites (category Fossil Lepidoptera)
weidneri. It is a compression fossil of a prepupal larva. Both the genus and species were first described by Kurt Kernbach in 1967. The fossil was found at...
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The earliest definitive record of Afzelia in the fossil record is a well-preserved, compression fossil of a leaflet (with cuticle) from the late Oligocene...
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Paleobotany (redirect from Plant fossil)
context as follows. Adpressions (compressions – impressions). These are the most commonly found type of plant fossil. They provide good morphological...
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Miaohephyton is a carbonaceous compression fossil of a thalloid organism that has been interpreted as a brown alga. Its Neoproterozoic age (600 to 550...
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Mantis (section Fossil mantises)
been found in Cretaceous amber. Most fossils in amber are nymphs; compression fossils (in rock) include adults. Fossil mantises from the Crato Formation...
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Dinokanaga (category Fossil taxa described in 2005)
of the new genus was based on the study of over 20 compression fossil specimens from five fossil producing locations in the highlands. Dinokanaga and...
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Diesel engine (redirect from Compression ignition engine)
of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with...
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Internal combustion engine (redirect from Fossil fuel vehicle)
compression and other factors. The most common modern fuels are made up of hydrocarbons and are derived mostly from fossil fuels (petroleum). Fossil fuels...
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Megarachne (category Fossil taxa described in 1980)
specimen consisting of a part and counterpart (the matching halves of a compression fossil) was recovered. This specimen had preserved parts of the front section...
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Mongolarachne (category Fossil taxa described in 2011)
The individuals are preserved as compression fossils in a pale grey finely laminated sedimentary tuff. The fossil specimens are from outcrops of the...
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Evolution of fungi (section Fossil record)
examined with light microscopy or transmission electron microscopy. Compression fossils are studied by dissolving the surrounding matrix with acid and then...
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Vulcanidris (category Fossil ant genera)
It also is the first recorded fossil of a hell ant preserved as a compression fossil in rock, as opposed to amber, allowing for the study of their unique...
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nearly 400 million years ago, a cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, a compression fossil replica of Archaeopteryx, Triceratops horridus, Deinonychus antirrhopus...
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Macabeemyrma (category Fossil taxa described in 2006)
a single specimen is known; a holotype queen found preserved as a compression fossil. The specimen had no wings and small portions of its legs and eyes...
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woods among Pacific Natives, this wood has excellent flexibility and compression strength-weight ratio. When backed with sinew, it produces extremely...
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Compsognathus (category Fossil taxa described in 1859)
and the position and orientation of the fossil within the sediments is no longer known. As a compression fossil, the specimen would originally have been...
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Paleolepidopterites (category Fossil Lepidoptera)
single, mostly complete adult of undetermined sex, preserved as a compression fossil in fine grained shale. The type specimen is currently preserved in...
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it. The film pull technique is a means of recovering carbonaceous compression fossils for study under transmitted light microscopy. An acid is applied...
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Schildbach, M.; Livi, K. J. T.; Smith, E. F. (2025). "Ribbon-like compression fossils from the late Ediacaran Esmeralda Member of the Deep Spring Formation...
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quadrifaria (the type species of the genus) was described in 1972 from compression fossils found in the Trout Valley Formation of northern Maine, USA. It was...
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