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Are Bacterial-Like Structures on Silurian and Devonian Plant Fossils Silurian or Devonian Microfossils?

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
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Summary

PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Spherical and rod-shaped structures of bacterial dimensions found on coalified Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian mesofossils including spores, cuticles and coprolites will be subjected to a number of techniques to determine whether they are biological and, if so, the timing of the colonisation (coeval, post Lower Devonian or Recent) of the plants. Techniques will involve imaging and analytical FESEM and SEM, TEM, removal of modern bacteria and simple incubation experiments with bacterial cultures. Such studies have much wider implications for the detection of bacteria in the history of life on Earth and other plants.

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XML, HTML
Date added
12 August 2026
Harvest GUID
9df8df52-d74f-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98
Dataset reference date (creation)
2003-10-01
Frequency of update
notApplicable
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
University of Cardiff (principalInvestigator); British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
nonGeographicDataset
Metadata language
eng