Abstract
A newly discovered population of organic walled microstructures from the Swaziland System, South Africa, is considered to be biological on the following grounds: (i) the structures are carbonaceous and occasionally have internal organic contents; (ii) the population has a narrow unimodal size frequency distribution (average diameter, 2.5 micrometers; range, 1 to 4 micrometers); (iii) the structures are not strictly spherical, but are commonly flattened and folded like younger microfossils; (iv) the sedimentary context is consistent with biogenic origins; and (v) various stages of binary division are clearly preserved.
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Created | 18 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 5, 2006, 12:03 p.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 7 months ago (Jan. 11, 2024, 9:43 p.m.) |
Indexed | 3 weeks ago (Aug. 7, 2025, 4:47 p.m.) |
Issued | 47 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 28, 1977) |
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@article{Knoll_1977, title={Archean Microfossils Showing Cell Division from the Swaziland System of South Africa}, volume={198}, ISSN={1095-9203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.198.4315.396}, DOI={10.1126/science.198.4315.396}, number={4315}, journal={Science}, publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, author={Knoll, Andrew H. and Barghoorn, Elso S.}, year={1977}, month=oct, pages={396–398} }