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Scale microfossils
Temporal range: 810 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Informal group: †Apatitic scale microfossils

Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the Fifteenmile Group, Yukon, Canada. They represent some of the earliest examples of biologically-induced biomineralization, using the mineral hydroxyapatite.[1]

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