Scale microfossils

Scale microfossils
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Informal group: †Apatitic scale microfossils

Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the Fifteenmile Group, Yukon, Canada. They represent some of the earliest examples of biologically induced biomineralization, using the mineral hydroxyapatite.

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