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

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...

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

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

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

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

Process of fossilisation...

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

back to the Cambrian period. Their aragonitic shells are not prone to fossilisation. They contain the modern Nautilus and many fossil forms including the...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

and its counterpart on the French side of the Channel, contain trapped fossilised marine flora. Pieces of coral and vegetation have been found preserved...

Orwell Quay. It was named after the factory which processed coprolite, or fossilised faeces, near Ipswich Docks. This factory was established by Edward Packard...

Elektron (ISS), a Russian oxygen generator Elektron (resin) or amber, a fossilised resin Elektron (satellite), a series of four Soviet particle physics satellites...

rare example of a complete skull and mandible, often crushed in the fossilisation process, that was preserved in the soft limestone of a body of fresh...

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...