Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Despite their abundance, diversity, and importance today, organisms with mineralized skeletons are a relatively recent introduction. For the first three billion years of its history, life was soft-bodied, inducing mineralized structures passively, if at all. Beginning ca. 550 Ma, however, more than
Source: Geology
Author: Susannah Porter
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2103624425