Are the large filamentous microfossils preserved in Messinian gypsum colorless sulfide-oxidizing bacteria?

Synchronous onset of the Messinian evaporite precipitation: First Mediterranean offshore evidence

(2015) Diana Ochoa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution's null hypothesis

(2015) J. William Schopf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fossil evidence of iron-oxidizing chemolithotrophy linked to phosphogenesis in the wake of the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Chris H. Crosby et al.   GEOLOGY

Did Late Miocene (Messinian) gypsum precipitate from evaporated marine brines? Insights from the Piedmont Basin (Italy)

(2014) M. Natalicchio et al.   GEOLOGY

Flocculent layers and bacterial mats in the mudstone interbeds of the Primary Lower Gypsum unit (Tertiary Piedmont basin, NW Italy): Archives of palaeoenvironmental changes during the Messinian salinity crisis

(2014) Francesco Dela Pierre et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences

(2014) Marco Roveri et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Polysulfides as Intermediates in the Oxidation of Sulfide to Sulfate by Beggiatoa spp.

(2013) Jasmine S. Berg et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Filamentous sulfur bacteria preserved in modern and ancient phosphatic sediments: implications for the role of oxygen and bacteria in phosphogenesis

(2013) J. V. Bailey et al.   Geobiology

Gypsum-Permineralized Microfossils and Their Relevance to the Search for Life on Mars

(2012) J. William Schopf et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Ribosomal RNA gene fragments from fossilized cyanobacteria identified in primary gypsum from the late Miocene, Italy

(2010) G. PANIERI et al.   Geobiology

The Primary Lower Gypsum in the Mediterranean: A new facies interpretation for the first stage of the Messinian salinity crisis

(2010) Lugli Stefano et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Chemotrophic Microbial Mats and Their Potential for Preservation in the Rock Record

(2009) Jake V. Bailey et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany

(2008) J. PECKMANN et al.   Geobiology