Archean tufted microbial mats and the Great Oxidation Event: new insights into an ancient problem

@article{Flannery2012ArcheanTM,
  title={Archean tufted microbial mats and the Great Oxidation Event: new insights into an ancient problem},
  author={D. Flannery and M. Walter},
  journal={Australian Journal of Earth Sciences},
  year={2012},
  volume={59},
  pages={1 - 11}
}
The macroscopic fossil record of the Archean consists solely of stromatolites and other microbialites, which seldom offer compelling clues to the identities of the organisms that formed them. Tufted microbial mats are an exception because their formation is known to require a suite of morphological and behavioural characteristics from which the behavioural and biological affinities of early microbialite-constructing microbes can be inferred. Here, the oldest yet reported convincing fossil… Expand
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