Bitter Springs (fossil locality)
- Bitter Springs (fossil locality)
Bitter Springs is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves microorganisms (bacteria and the like) in silica.[cite journal]
url = http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/3/651
title = Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia
author = Schopf, J.W.
journal = Journal of Paleontology
volume = 42
issue = 3
pages = 651–688
year = 1968
accessdate = 2008-07-01] Its preservational mode ceased in the late Precambrian with the advent of silicifying organisms.[cite journal]
title = Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion
year = 2003
journal = Integrative and Comparative Biology
volume = 43
issue = 1
pages = 166–177
doi = 10.1093/icb/43.1.166
author = Butterfield, Nicholas J.] References
External links
* [http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/bittersprings.html University of California - Berkeley page on the Bitter Springs formation]
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