Fossil vs Micrometazoa - What's the difference?
fossil | micrometazoa |
The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
(paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
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(linguistics) A fossilized term.
(figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
As nouns the difference between fossil and micrometazoa
is that fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant while micrometazoa is an extremely small fossil of the metazoa type.fossil
English
(wikipedia fossil)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}