Palaeontology: modern life in ancient mats. Academic Article

abstract

• Microbial communities seem to have inhabited tidal sediments 2.9 billion years ago much as they do today - but what organisms were involved, and how they made their living, remain intriguing questions. 2008 Nature Publishing Group.

authors

• Tice, Michael

published proceedings

• Nature

author list (cited authors)

• Tice, M. M.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Tice, Michael M

publication date

• March 2008

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature  Journal

keywords

• Ecosystem
• Fossils
• Geologic Sediments
• Marine Biology
• Models, Biological
• Oceans And Seas
• Paleontology
• Seawater
• Silicon Dioxide
• South Africa
• Time Factors
• Water Movements

PubMed Central ID

• 18322521

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/452040a

start page

• 40

end page

• 41

volume

• 452

issue

• 7183

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1038%2F452040a