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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Index fossils
- Composition
- Organic-walled
- Palynomorphs
- Pollen grain
- Plant spores
- Fungal spores
- Chitinozoa
- Acritarchs
- Archean cells
- Mineralised
- Siliceous
- Calcareous
- Ostracods
- Conodonts
- Scolecodonts
- Cloudinids
- Dinoflagellate cysts
- Sponge spicules
- Freshwater sediments
- Marine sediments
- Biogenous
- Lithified
- Micropaleontology
- See also
- References
- Other sources
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A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between one micrometre and one millimetre in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy. A fossil which can be studied with the naked eye or low-powered magnification, such as a hand lens, is referred to as a macrofossil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “microfossil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.