Bioerosion – Erosion of hard substrates by living organisms Cryptospore – Fossilised primitive plant spore Endolith – Organism living inside a rock List of...

unit Parent rock – Original rock substratum Petrifaction – Process of fossilisation Weathering – Deterioration of rocks and minerals through exposure to...

A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces. Coprolites are classified as trace fossils as opposed to body fossils, as they give evidence...

Fossil wood, also known as fossilized tree, is wood that is preserved in the fossil record. Over time the wood will usually be the part of a plant that...

The Lloyds Bank coprolite is a large coprolite, or fossilised specimen of human faeces, recovered by the York Archaeological Trust while excavating the...

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Eldredgeops rana (formerly Phacops rana) is a species of trilobite from the middle Devonian period. Their fossils are found chiefly in the northeastern...

natural processes are unable to take place, leading to fossilisation. The chance of fossilisation is higher when the sedimentation rate is high (so that...

established a press bureau in the Netherlands, Indonesisch Pers-bureau. Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the "Java Man", suggest the...

the existing phylogeny is confirmed; the rosid phylogeny is revised. Fossilised spores suggest that land plants (embryophytes) have existed for at least...

type of evidence. The most common types are wood, bones, and shells. Fossilisation is a rare event, and most fossils are destroyed by erosion or metamorphism...

fossilized in amber and dating back about twenty million years. Faecal pellets fossilised beside it show that it transmitted a disease-causing Trypanosoma and the...

(and were modified by abrasive sand and gravel particles during the fossilisation process), the attribution to butchery is dubious. In 2015, the Lomekwi...

of pollen grains affords them some resistance to the rigours of the fossilisation process that destroy weaker objects; it is also produced in huge quantities...

2007-04-17. PBS. WGBH. First Flower. Thomson, Helen (Aug 17, 2015). "Fossilised remains of world's oldest flower discovered in Spain". The Guardian. Archived...

in 4.1 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. In 2017, putative fossilised microorganisms (or microfossils) were announced to have been discovered...

vulnerable to solar radiation. Ancient lifeforms may still have left fossilised remains, and microbes may still survive deep underground. As mentioned...

Meliorchis caribea, on its wings. This find is the first evidence of fossilised orchids to date and shows insects were active pollinators of orchids then...

progression from early biogenic graphite to microbial mat fossils to fossilised multicellular organisms. Existing patterns of biodiversity have been shaped...

found in a cave near Xarrë include flint and jasper objects along with fossilised animal bones, while those discoveries at Mount Dajt comprise bone and...

the titanosaurs died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Fossilised remains of sauropods have been found on every continent, including Antarctica...

word is spelled "Nerin," with the initial n- probably representing a fossilisation of the preposition in/an "in" (cf. Irish in Éirinn, Scottish an Èirinn/ann...

and shore at Whitecliff Bay. Fossilised molluscs have been found there, and also on the northern coast along with fossilised crocodiles, turtles and mammal...

been dated to 270 million years ago, after being found in coprolites (fossilised faeces) from an elasmobranch. Putative older fossils include a ribbon-shaped...

but unattested in all other Germanic languages except for the single fossilised form preserved in, for example, Old English hātte or Runic Norse (c. 400)...

calcium compound on Earth is calcium carbonate, found in limestone and the fossilised remnants of early sea life; gypsum, anhydrite, fluorite, and apatite are...

DNA could be preserved in the stomach contents of a blood-sucking fly fossilised in amber, though the mechanism has been discounted by scientists. Dipterans...

item. With the help of the rest, they fully dig it out and learn it is a fossilised bone. Daisy fantasizes about the bone’s origin, exploring prehistoric...

Processed, fossilised pollen from the family Poaceae. Species unknown...