Bitter Springs Group
Bitter Springs Group is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves microorganisms in silica.[1] Bitter Springs type preservation ceased in the late Precambrian with the coming of silicifying organisms.[2] Preserved fossils include cyanobacteria microfossils.[3]
Bitter Springs is pretty much in the centre of Australia, in the south of the Northern Territory.
Bitter Springs Group Media
Fossil stromatolites from the Bitter Springs Group
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References
- ↑ Schopf J.W. (1968). "Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 42 (3): 651–688. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ↑ Butterfield, Nicholas J. (2003). "Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43 (1): 166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166. PMID 21680421.
- ↑ Schopf, J. William (2012). Ecology of cyanobacteria II. "The fossil record of cyanobacteria.". Netherlands: Springer. pp. 15–36.