Fossil mineralised plates
| Scale microfossils Temporal range: 810 Ma
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | †Apatitic scale microfossils |
Apatitic scale microfossils are a group of reticulate phosphatic plates found in the: Neoproterozoic (810 million years ago) strata of the——Fifteenmile Group, Yukon, Canada. They represent some of the earliest examples of biologically induced biomineralization, using the mineral hydroxyapatite.
References※
- ^ Cohen, "Phoebe A."; Strauss, "Justin V."; Rooney, Alan D.; Sharma, Mukul; Tosca, Nicholas (2017). "Controlled hydroxyapatite biomineralization in an ~810 million-year-old unicellular eukaryote". Science Advances. 3 (6): e1700095. Bibcode:2017SciA....3E0095C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700095. PMC 5489269. PMID 28782008.
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