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- Fossil abstract "Fossils (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous (fossil-containing) rock formations and sedimentary layers (strata) is known as the fossil record.The study of fossils across geological time, how they were formed, and the evolutionary relationships between taxa (phylogeny) are some of the most important functions of the science of paleontology. Such a preserved specimen is called a "fossil" if it is older than some minimum age, most often the arbitrary date of 10,000 years. Hence, fossils range in age from the youngest at the start of the Holocene Epoch to the oldest from the Archaean Eon, up to 3.48 billion years old. The observation that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led early geologists to recognize a geological timescale in the 19th century. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed geologists to determine the numerical or "absolute" age of the various strata and thereby the included fossils.Like extant organisms, fossils vary in size from microscopic, even single bacterial cells one micrometer in diameter, to gigantic, such as dinosaurs and trees many meters long and weighing many tons. A fossil normally preserves only a portion of the deceased organism, usually that portion that was partially mineralized during life, such as the bones and teeth of vertebrates, or the chitinous or calcareous exoskeletons of invertebrates. Fossils may also consist of the marks left behind by the organism while it was alive, such as animal tracks or feces (coprolites). These types of fossil are called trace fossils (or ichnofossils), as opposed to body fossils. Finally, past life leaves some markers that cannot be seen but can be detected in the form of biochemical signals; these are known as chemofossils or biosignatures.".
- Fossil thumbnail Permian_Silicified_Sclerobionts.JPG?width=300.
- Fossil wikiPageExternalLink bones-are-not-the-only-fossils.
- Fossil wikiPageExternalLink ?hp.
- Fossil wikiPageExternalLink www.fossilmuseum.net.
- Fossil wikiPageExternalLink www.fossilrecord.net.
- Fossil wikiPageExternalLink www.paleoportal.org.
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- Fossil wikiPageLength "68550".
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- Fossil wikiPageRevisionID "681881449".
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink 1,000,000,000.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink 1000000000_(number).
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Absolute_dating.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Accretion_(geology).
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Adaptation.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Agate.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Albert_of_Saxony_(philosopher).
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Amber.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Amino_acid.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Ammonite.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Ammonoidea.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greece.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Animal_track.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Animal_tracks.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Aphrodisiac.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Aragonite.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Araucaria.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Araucaria_mirabilis.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Araucarioxylon_arizonicum.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Archean.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Arctic.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Arecaceae.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Argon–argon_dating.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Aristotle.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Asaphus_kowalewskii.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Atmosphere.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Autotroph.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Avicenna.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Baltic_Sea.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bathyurus_extans.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bezoar.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Billingsella_corrugata.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biochemistry.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bioerosion.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biofilm.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biomineralization.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biosignature.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biosphere.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biostratigraphy.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Biotic_material.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bivalve.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bivalvia.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bone.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Botanical_name.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Brachiopod.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bryozoa.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Bryozoan.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Burgess_Shale.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cactocrinus_multibrachiatus.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Calcareous.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Calcite.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Calyptraphorus_velatus.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian_explosion.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian_substrate_revolution.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carbon.
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- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carbonaceous_film.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carboniferous.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carcharodontosaurus.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Linnaeus.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Carolus_Linnaeus.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Castanopsis.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Catastrophism.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossils.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cell_wall.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Chelation.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Chemotroph.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Chitin.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Chlorophyta.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Coccolithophore.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Collagen.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Collenia.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Colony_(biology).
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Compression_fossil.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Concretion.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Conifer_cone.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Continent.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Coprolite.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Coral.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cryptospores.
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Curiosity_(rover).
- Fossil wikiPageWikiLink Cyanobacteria.