TRACES OF COPROPEL-LOVING ORGANISMS IN PHOSPHATIZED COPROLITE
Yu. N. Zanin, V. A. Luchinina, and E. A. Zhegallo
Keywords: Phosphatic coprolite, copropel-loving organism, fungi, Paleogene, Kazakhstan
Pages: 400-403
Abstract
Organic matter of the fossilized excrement is subject to biological decomposition and transformation. But the nature of the organisms engaged in this process in the past is usually unknown and can be established only by examination of microfossils in ancient coprolites. The data obtained during the study of Paleogene phosphate coprolites from the Zaisan Depression, Kazakhstan, suggest that fungi were involved in these processes.
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