or clade. Therefore, some protists may be more closely related to animals, plants, or fungi than they are to other protists. However, like algae, invertebrates...

early fossil record of protists is equivalent to the early record of eukaryotic life. The protist fossil record is mainly represented by protists with fossilizable...

Gunflint microfossils Macrofossil Protists in the fossil record Protist shell Scale microfossils Small carbonaceous fossil Slater, Ben J.; Harvey, Thomas...

climate and human activity. Paleovirology Protists in the fossil record List of prehistoric foraminiferans The Micropalaeontological Society Drewes, Charlie...

A protist (/ˈproʊtɪst/) is any eukaryotic organism (one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. The protists do not form...

Paleodictyon nodosum may actually be a large protist. There are other known examples of protists reaching the sizes that Paleodictyon reaches, and they are...

at all. Fossils which can be reliably related to extant tintinnids (e.g. fossils of agglutinated lorica) are in the fossil record during the Jurassic...

are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other...

Legouta, Anton (2003-03-31). "Ediacaran biota: The dawn of animal life in the shadow of giant protists". Paleontological Research. 7 (1): 43–54. doi:10...

was adopted in Middle English in the 14th century. In the Romance languages, the sense of the word was extended to Baltic amber (fossil resin) from as...

together in one group. The best known amoeboid protists are Chaos carolinense and Amoeba proteus, both of which have been widely cultivated and studied in classrooms...

predatory protists encased in elaborate globular shells (or "capsules"), usually made of silica and pierced with holes. Their name comes from the Latin for...

Coccolithophore shells Many protists have protective shells or tests, usually made from silica (glass) or calcium carbonate (chalk). Protists are a diverse group...

Marine protists Marine protists are defined by their habitat as protists that live in marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans...

living fossil is a term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record, though scientifically the term...

unified group they have been placed primarily in Animalia, but are considered by others to be protists, fungi, terrestrial lichens, or an independent...

The small shelly fauna, small shelly fossils (SSF), or early skeletal fossils (ESF) are mineralized fossils, many only a few millimetres long, with a...

The silicoflagellates (order Dictyochales) are a small group of unicellular photosynthetic protists, or algae, belonging to the supergroup of eukaryotes...

as the Cambrian explosion. Most of the currently existing body plans of animals first appeared in the fossil record of the Cambrian rather than the Ediacaran...

are also common throughout the Cambrian fossil record. Taphonomic studies indicate that embryos are preserved for longest in reducing, anoxic conditions...

aesthetically interesting protists both alive and in the fossil record. They occupy an important role ecologically and have done so since the Precambrian. There...

discipline is the scientific study of prehistoric invertebrates by analyzing invertebrate fossils in the geologic record. By invertebrates are meant the non-vertebrate...

of other protists such as Gromia. They are found as both marine and freshwater forms, and are the oldest forms known from the fossil record. Allogromia...

protists in three classes: Choanoflagellatea, Ichthyosporea and Filasterea. Subphylum Paramycia, a monophyletic group containing holomycotan protists...

Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Cushman Foundation Loeblich & Tappin, 1964. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part C Protists in the fossil record...

Roy E.; Wagner, Peter J. (2006). "Round up the Usual Suspects: Common Genera in the Fossil Record and the Nature of Wastebasket Taxa". Paleobiology. 32...

In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical aquatic animals and protists, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans...

taxa in the fossil record, ranging from protists to arthropods. This includes groups that are significant in paleontological contexts, abundant in the fossil...

protists, but recent studies in marine environments found mixotrophic protests contribute a significant part of the protist biomass. Since protists are...

on an arbitrary point of time: the present. However, as it is character based, it is easy to apply to the fossil record. A greater problem is that it relies...