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J. William Schopf

American paleobiologist

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study of eukaryotic algae

  • geologic time
    In Precambrian: Microfossils and stromatolites

    …the late 1960s, American paleobiologist J. William Schopf pointed out that the abundant microflora of the 900-million-year-old Bitter Springs Formation of central Australia includes some eukaryotic algae that have cells in various stages of division arranged into tetrahedral sporelike forms. These resemble the tetrad of spore cells of living plants…

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