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| | Micropaleontology - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Microfossils are a common feature of the geological record, from the Precambrian to the Quaternary, and are found in most marine and terrestrial sediments. |
 | | While every Kingdom of life is represented in the microfossil record, the most abundant forms are protist skeletons or cysts from the phyla Chrysophyta, Pyrrhophyta, Sarcodina, acritarchs and chitinozoans together with pollen and spores from vascular plants. |
 | | Micropaleontology is traditionally divided into three areas of study on the basis of microfossil composition, which can be calcereous, siliceous, or organic. |
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