Were the First Trace Fossils Really Burrows or Could They Have Been Made by Sediment-Displacive Chemosymbiotic Organisms?

This review asks some hard questions about what the enigmatic graphoglyptid trace fossils are, documents some of their early fossil record from the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and explores the idea that they may not have been fossils at all. Most researchers have considered the Graphoglyptida to h...

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Main Author: Duncan McIlroy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-01-01
Series:Life
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/2/136