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Reid, PC and Allitt, U 1981 Comments On The Pseudo-Microfossil Linotolypen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 34 (2). 263 - 267. https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-6667(81)90044-0
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Hollow, black reticulate ‘microfossils’ of unknown affinity found in Ordovician to late Cretaceous sediments from North America, Europe and Australia were given the name Linotolypa by Eisenack in 1962. In 1978, he recognised that they were pseudo-microfossils consisting of asphalt, and noted that their structure resembled that of soap bubbles formed in agitated suspensions. These objects are well known as a component of the particles caught from the air by pollen and spore traps at the present day. They are correctly termed ‘cenospheres’ and are formed from coal and possibly pitch and fuel oil by incomplete combustion. If their presence were to be confirmed in Palaeozoic sediments, this would provide important new evidence for the occurrence of fire in the geological record and of the history of levels of O2 in the atmosphere.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Other (PML) |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date made live: | 11 Feb 2014 15:54 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2017 16:03 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/2778 |
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