Scale microfossils

Scale microfossils; Temporal range: 810 Ma Pha. Proterozoic Archean Had. ↓
Scientific classification
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]

References

^ Cohen, Phoebe A.; Strauss, Justin V.; Rooney, Alan D.; Sharma, Mukul; Tosca, Nicholas (2017). "Controlled hydroxyapatite biomineralization in an ~810 million-year-old unicellular eukaryote". Science Advances. 3 (6): e1700095. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700095.

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[1] Cohen, Phoebe A.; Strauss, Justin V.; Rooney, Alan D.; Sharma, Mukul; Tosca, Nicholas (2017). "Controlled hydroxyapatite biomineralization in an ~810 million-year-old unicellular eukaryote". Science Advances. 3 (6): e1700095. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700095.

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