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How old are the oldest fossils? Where were they discovered?

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How old are the oldest fossils? Where were they discovered?

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  1. the oldest fossil is TRILOBITA...age = cambrium (+/- 542 million year before present)

    where..?? i don't really know the exact place but I'm pretty sure it is found somewhere in America continent.


  2. As of 2008, the oldest rocks on Earth known are 4.03 billion years old, from the Acasta Gneiss in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

    The oldest macroscopic body fossils date back to the ancient Ediacaran period, which extended from 635 to 542 million years ago.

    Trace fossils are fossil traces left by organisms, many ancient and extinct. The oldest are from the Twitya Formation in northwestern Canada, dated to 610 million years ago.

  3. 3.5 billon years in Western Australia, a type of bacteria.

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