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What are plankton fossils?​

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Some plankton are known for making shells whose chemistry records the environment they live in. ... Their microscopic, mineralised plates (known as coccoliths) contain a chemical imprint of the cell, as well as the environment, and leave a different and highly variable chemical signal in the sediments preserving them.

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