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Eozoon
UK
/ˌiːəʊˈzəʊ.ən/
US
/ˌiːoʊˈzuː.ɑn/
Translation of "eozoon" into Russian
eozoon
Noun
UK
/ˌiːəʊˈzəʊ.ən/
US
/ˌiːoʊˈzuː.ɑn/
eozoon
eozoons pl
eozoa pl
The eozoon was once thought to be the earliest form of life.
Эозоон когда-то считался самой ранней формой жизни.
Definitions
eozoon
Noun
UK
/ˌiːəʊˈzəʊ.ən/
US
/ˌiːoʊˈzuː.ɑn/
A banded calcareous or serpentine structure from Precambrian rocks, long thought to be the fossil of a gigantic protozoan but now regarded as an inorganic, non-biological formation (a pseudofossil).
By the late nineteenth century, most geologists accepted that eozoon was a mineral structure rather than an early life-form.
Eozoon
Proper noun
A proposed genus, Eozoon, once believed to represent the earliest known fossil organism (Eozoon canadense), later shown to be non-biological.
Eozoon canadense was heralded in 1864 as proof of Precambrian life.