Scale microfossils
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Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): †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

  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. Bibcode:2017SciA....3E0095C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700095. PMC 5489269. PMID 28782008.


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