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What are found on the outer surfaces of stromatolites?
Biofilms of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria, are found on the outter surfaces of stromatolites.
What have scientist inferred from fossil stromatolites?
Stromatolites were much more abundant on the planet in Precambrian times which means that fossils found around stromatolites are typically from the Precambrian era.
Name of the oldest fossil found in Australia?
The oldest fossils in Australia are 3.5 billion year old stromatolites. Stromatolites are layered accretions of prokaryotic microbes, most often made up of photosynthetic organisms. Stromatolites still live in Australia today.
What part of a cave are stromatolites found in?
Stomatolites are not usually found in caves. They are usually found in hyper saline lakes and marine lagoons.
When did Stromatolites become extinct?
The are examples of stromatolites still living. They are not extinct.
What (who)are stromatolites?
The stromatolites are the layered mounds, columns, and the sheet-like sedimentary rocks.
What are the oldest fossils?
Stromatolites.
How is a structure built?
Stromatolites
What is an ancient fossil that are found in dome-shaped rocks composed of thin layers of sediment pressed tightly together called?
Stromatolites
During which period did the presence of stromatolites decline?
Proterozoic is called the "Age of Stromatolites" (Abundant in Proterozoic shallow seas)
What fossils are from the Precambrian era?
Stromatolites
Are structures built by cyanobacteria.?
stromatolites
