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Comments on some of Britain’s oldest microfossils C. J. PEAT Journal of Micropalaeontology, 3, 65-71, 1 September 1984, https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.3.2.65
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Abstract A critical re-appraisal of some reports of British Precambrian microfossils illustrates potential pitfalls in describing Precambrian microbiotas. The Ceinwen and Llanddwyn Spilitic Formation of the Gwna Group contains convincing filamentous microfossils, but a report of acanthomorph arcitarchs has not yet been confirmed. Although the Diabaig Formation of the Torridon Group is known
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to be abundantly fossiliferous, a report based on S.E.M. without thin section
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control is rejected. Chert pebbles from the Applecross Formation of the Torridon
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Group do not contain convincing microfossils. They are contaminated by fungi
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and contain abiogenic structures which resemble cells and tissues. Reports of
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diagnostic Middle Riphean microfossils from the Blackbrook Formation and the Maplewell Group of the Charnian and the Buxton Rock of the Longmyndian await
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