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Fossil Organisms and Their Role in the Formation of Black Oncolites of the Vendian Kalancha Formation in the Baikal–Patom Highlands of Eastern Siberia

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Electron microscopy enabled the first identifications of remains of microorganisms and biogenic ultramicrostructures in the black oncolites of the Vendian Kalancha Formation in the Baikal–Patom Highlands, and in the rocks hosting these oncolites. Our research indicates that other microorganism remains, recrystallized filamentous cyanobacteria and fossilized colonies of tubular organisms, as well as individual coccoid formations of biogenic origin, are widely distributed, but only in oncolites as opposed to the host rocks. Based on the new information, features of the lifetime activity of organisms and their involvement in the construction of the concentric structure of black oncolites are analyzed, and the nature of the interaction of biogenic and abiogenic factors in the formation of these structures are established.

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This study was performed within the state budget topic of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Proterozoic Periodization and Role of Global Environmental and Climate Changes in the Evolution of the Precambrian Biosphere” (FMMG-2023-0004).

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Litvinova, T.V. Fossil Organisms and Their Role in the Formation of Black Oncolites of the Vendian Kalancha Formation in the Baikal–Patom Highlands of Eastern Siberia. Paleontol. J. 57, 586–596 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030123030097

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