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Bitter Springs is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves microorganisms (bacteria and the like) in silica.^[1] Its preservational mode ceased in the late Precambrian with the advent of silicifying organisms.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Schopf, J.W. (May 1, 1968). "Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia". Journal of Paleontology 42 (3): 651–688. http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/3/651. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
^ Butterfield, Nicholas J. (2003). "Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion". Integrative and Comparative Biology 43 (1): 166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166.

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[Schopf1968-0] Schopf, J.W. (May 1, 1968). "Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, Central Australia". Journal of Paleontology 42 (3): 651–688. http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/3/651. Retrieved 2008-07-01.

[Butterfield2003-1] Butterfield, Nicholas J. (2003). "Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion". Integrative and Comparative Biology 43 (1): 166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166.

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