Publishing House SB RAS:

Publishing House SB RAS:

Address of the Publishing House SB RAS:
Morskoy pr. 2, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia



Advanced Search

Russian Geology and Geophysics

2002 year, number 4

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.