@inbook{588b646941094dd691e6038e657130a8,
title = "Farrel quartzite microfossils in the Goldsworthy Greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: additional evidence for a diverse and evolved biota on the Archean earth",
abstract = "A microfossil assemblage recently discovered from the Farrel Quartzite(ca. 3.0 Ga) in the Goldsworthy greenstone belt in the Pilbara Craton comprisesfive main morphological types (thread like, film-like, spheroidal [>15 and <15 mm], and lenticular to spindle-like) and some elaborate morphologies that might represent reproducing or resting stages of the spheroidal and lenticular to spindle-like structures. This assemblage is abundant within a stratiform black chert associated with evaporite, suggesting an early evolution of a diverse and complex ecosystem in an Archean shallow water environment, although taxonomic and phylogenetic studies have only just begun. So far, from more than ten sites of occurrence of black cherts in the Goldsworthy greenstone belt, similar assemblages of microstructures have been found.",
keywords = "Farrel Quartzite, Microfossils, Goldsworthy greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Spheroidal, Spindle-like, Archean, Microstructures, Western Australia, Diverse and complex ecosystem",
author = "Kenichiro Sugitani and Koichi Mimura and Walter, {Malcolm R.}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-0397-1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789400703964",
series = "Cellular Origin Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "117--132",
editor = "Tewari, {Vinod C.} and Joseph Seckbach",
booktitle = "Stromatolites",
address = "United States",
}