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    the casts, permineralization is particularly useful in studies of the internal structures of organisms, usually of plants. Permineralization, a type of...
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    Petrifaction takes place through a combination of two similar processes: permineralization and replacement. These processes create replicas of the original specimen...
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    cell wall of a plant cell. Small scale permineralization can produce very detailed fossils. For permineralization to occur, the organism must become covered...
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    replaced by stone via a mineralization process that often includes permineralization and replacement. The organic materials making up cell walls have been...
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    chemical composition, a process called permineralization. The most common minerals involved in permineralization are various forms of amorphous silica...
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    A form of diagenesis is permineralization, in which buried organisms are replaced by minerals. These trilobites (Lloydolithus) were replaced by pyrite...
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    identified when they resemble extant fungi. Often recovered from a permineralized plant or animal host, these samples are typically studied by making...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    on their stability. Calcium carbonate can preserve fossils through permineralization. Most of the vertebrate fossils of the Two Medicine Formation—a geologic...
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    symbiosis that may have involved controlled parasitism,[citation needed] is permineralized in the Rhynie Chert of Scotland, dating from early Early Devonian, about...
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    fossils of wood that have turned to stone through the process of permineralization. All organic materials are replaced with minerals while maintaining...
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    Wu; Zheng, Shao-Lin; Zhu, Zhi-Peng; Liu, Zhong-Jian (2018-03-01). "Permineralized osmundaceous and gleicheniaceous ferns from the Jurassic of Inner Mongolia...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    Stockey, R. A.; Maxwell, S. L. (1993). ""Paleomyrtinaea", a new genus of permineralized myrtaceous fruits and seeds from the Eocene of British Columbia and...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    of Patagonia (Argentina): Reconciling the records of impression and permineralized fossils". American Journal of Botany. 104 (2): 322–334. doi:10.3732/ajb...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    bioturbation. Proterozoic stromatolite microfossils (preserved by permineralization in silica) include cyanobacteria and possibly some forms of the eukaryote...
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    (late Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, it is a permineralized multiple infructescence composed of berries with six locules, each containing...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    metallidurans Biomineralising polychaetes Mineral nutrients Microbial mat Fossilization permineralization petrifaction Burgess Shale preservation  Category v t e...
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    Island contain plant-rich horizons. The fossil plants are dominated by permineralized branches of conifers and compressions of angiosperm leaves, and are...
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  • of arthropods are subject to decomposition, they often maintain shape during permineralization, especially if they are already somewhat mineralized....
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    Ediacaran type preservation Fossil record Karen Chin Lagerstätte Permineralization Petrifaction Pseudofossil Trace fossil Lyman, R. Lee (2010-01-01)...
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    the Eocene about 50 million years ago. The specimens are preserved permineralized in-situ in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Princeton chert site. This...
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    of the eagle rays becoming pelagic during the early Late Cretaceous. Permineralized stingray teeth have been found in sedimentary deposits around the world...
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