Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəˌlaɪts, strə-/ stroh-MAT-ə-lytes, strə-) or stromatoliths (from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma), GEN στρώματος (strṓmatos) 'layer...

Lichen stromatolites are laminar calcretes that are proposed as being formed by a sequence of repetitions of induration followed by lichen colonization...

Bhojunda Stromatolite Park is located near Bhojunda village which is about 6 km south-west of Chittaurgarh city in Rajasthan, India. It is spread across...

cyanobacteria. Stromatolites provide some of the most ancient fossil records of life on Earth, dating back more than 3.5 billion years ago. Stromatolites were much...

This is a list of all extinct cyanobacteria genera that formed stromatolites. "Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales". 79. 1954: 95–96...

between carbonates, claystones and evaporates. Its base is delimited by a stromatolite bed. Below the Guelph is the Eramosa Formation. This formation is typically...

impression of the Archean, the eon after Earth's formation, featuring round stromatolites, which are early oxygen-producing forms of life from billions of years...

composing stromatolites located in Highbourne Cay, The Bahamas, her work has provided insights into the microbial diversity and ecology of stromatolites and...

known life, mostly represented by shallow-water microbial mats called stromatolites, started in the Archean and remained simple prokaryotes (archaea and...

Much of the fossilized stromatolites of the world can be found in Western Australia. There, some of the oldest stromatolites have been found, some dating...

Conophyton is a genus of stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria from the Neoproterozoic era. Fossils have been found in many countries, including Australia...

Dark layers made of shungite in a stromatolite, Franceville Basin, Gabon, Central Africa...

for some palaeontological findings in its surroundings. Fossilised stromatolites found nearby (one of the earliest forms of life on Earth) have been...

Supracrustal Belt in Greenland. The earliest direct known life on land may be stromatolites which have been found in 3.480-billion-year-old geyserite uncovered...

evolution. Around the same time, the layered mats of microorganisms called stromatolites decreased in diversity, perhaps due to grazing by newly evolved animals...

reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on Earth over 3,500 million years BP...

and most diverse seagrass beds in the world. However, it is for its stromatolites (colonies of microbial mats that form hard, dome-shaped deposits which...

and frog orchid. A stromatolite colony was reportedly found at the Giant's Causeway in October 2011 – an unusual find, as stromatolites are more commonly...

Site Official name Vredefort Dome Includes Vredefort Dome core area The stromatolite/basal fault plane site The chocolate tablet breccia site The pseudotachylite...

Mamley Stromatolite Park Namchi South Sikkim district Sikkim Geo-tourism: Also called "Buxa Formation of Mamley", is Algal mat#StromatolitesStromatolite Algal...

Stromatolite fossil estimated at 3.2–3.6 billion years old...

K.A. (2003). "Biofilm, Biodictyon, Biomat Microbialites, Oolites, Stromatolites, Geophysiology, Global Mechanism, Parahistology". In Krumbein, W.E.;...

present in cyanobacteria and other oxygenic microorganisms that form stromatolites in 2010; a molecular formula of C55H70O6N4Mg and a structure of (2-formyl)-chlorophyll...

range. The fossils found in the Sonbhadra Fossils Park are algae and stromatolites types of fossils. The park is spread over an area of about 25 hectares...

enough that under certain conditions, biofilms can become fossilized (stromatolites). Bacteria living in a biofilm usually have significantly different...

red bed) Costello Formation (carbonate slope deposit) Mavor Formation (stromatolite reef complex) Tukarak Formation (shallow water carbonate) Fairweather...

of that age at Warrawoona, Australia, were claimed to contain fossil stromatolites, stubby pillars formed by colonies of microorganisms. Fossils (Grypania)...

oolitic fossiliferous limestone, associated with large, freshwater stromatolites and nine levels of dinosaur tracks (trace fossils) in the El Molino...

includes a great variety of structures caused by ancient life including stromatolites and MISS once formed by microbial mats. Such microbial mats belong to...

← Sharp drop in Stromatolite Population...