Chitinozoan

id: chitinozoan-174-10650750
title: Chitinozoan
text: Chitinozoa are a group of flask-shaped, organic walled marine microfossils produced by an as yet unknown organism. Common from the Ordovician to Devonian periods, the millimetre-scale organisms are abundant in almost all types of marine sediment across the globe. This wide distribution, and their rapid pace of evolution, makes them valuable biostratigraphic markers. Their bizarre form has made classification and ecological reconstruction difficult. Since their discovery in 1931, suggestions of p
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description: Group of marine microfossils
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoan
date created: 2004-09-27T18:24:57Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T00:44:18Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Whole_chitinozoan_cropped.jpg","width":833,"height":875}
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