Involvement of microbial mats in early fossilization by decay delay and formation of impressions and replicas of vertebrates and invertebrates

High fidelity preservation of fossil insects from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil

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A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression

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Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers

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The link between biomineralization and fossilization of bacteria: Insights from field and experimental studies

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INVOLVEMENT OF MICROBIAL MATS IN DELAYED DECAY: AN EXPERIMENTAL ESSAY ON FISH PRESERVATION

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Lipid taphonomy in the Proterozoic and the effect of microbial mats on biomarker preservation

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EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION OF A MICROBIAL DEATH MASK

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Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

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(2012) Johan Lindgren et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of Messel for interpreting Eocene Holarctic mammalian faunas

(2012) Kenneth D. Rose   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

A holistic approach to the palaeoecology of Las Hoyas Konservat-Lagerstätte (La Huérguina Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Iberian Ranges, Spain)

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Microbial biofilms and the preservation of the Ediacara biota

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Dinosaur skin impressions from the Cretaceous of Korea: New insights into modes of preservation

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Formation and Taphonomy of Human Footprints in Microbial Mats of Present-Day Tidal-flat Environments: Implications for the Study of Fossil Footprints

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Smothering of microbial mats by macrobiota: implications for the Ediacara biota

(2009) DUNCAN McILROY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION IN MIOCENE FROGS FROM LIBROS, SPAIN: INSIGHTS INTO THE GENESIS OF DECAY MICROENVIRONMENTS

(2009) M. E. MCNAMARA et al.   PALAIOS

The colour of fossil feathers

(2008) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

(2008) Christophe Dupraz et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

COLEOFASCICULUSGEN. NOV. (CYANOBACTERIA): MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR CRITERIA FOR REVISION OF THE GENUSMICROCOLEUSGOMONT1

(2008) Maria A. Siegesmund et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms

(2008) Thomas G. Kaye et al.   PLoS One

Embryo fossilization is a biological process mediated by microbial biofilms

(2008) E. C. Raff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular taphonomy of macrofossils from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas Formation, Spain

(2007) Neal S. Gupta et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH