Earliest Life - Strelley Pool Stromatolite - 4.99" new EI-BED left service in 1995

EI-BED left service in 1995 and was scrapped the following year

75-1cm in length

They first appeared in the fossil record at the beginning of the Cretaceous Period 145

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Earliest Life - Strelley Pool Stromatolite - 4.99" new EI-BED left service in 1995Billions of years ago, the first lifeforms on this planet were cyanobacteria living in shallow pools of water, taking in light and carbon dioxide and producing mucus and calcium carbonate. Each layer of the microbial mat built upon the last, forming an intricate laminate structure called stromatolites. This specimen is a fragment of Strelley Pool Stromatolite from the Dresser Formation in Western Australia, measuring 4. 99" in length along the longest