Three-Billion-Year-Old Plankton (Western Australia)
Three-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils Include Plankton
Science Daily, June 6, 2013
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130606155123.htm
Plankton fossils found in 3 billion-year-old rocks, Penn State News
http://news.psu.edu/story/278723/2013/06/06/research/3-billion-year-old-microfossils-include-plankton
http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/plankton-fossils-found-in-3-billion-year-old-rocks/
House, C. H., D. Z. Oehler, K. Sugitani, K. Mimura, 2013,
Carbon isotopic analyses of ca. 3.0 Ga microstructures imply
planktonic autotrophs inhabited Earth's early oceans.
Geology. vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 651-654. DOI: 10.1130/G34055.1
http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2013/03/26/G34055.1.abstract
Yours,
Paul H.