The exact number of maxillary tooth positions cannot be counted due to poor preservation, but at least 21 teeth are preserved on each side.
Robert Riding, of the University of Tennessee says while the similarities of the structures to younger, better-preserved, stromatolites from Australia are intriguing, the poor preservation of the rocks throws doubt on whether the structures were indeed produced by living organisms as opposed to physical processes.
Pietrzak-Johnston et al. [ 36] describe that in samples preserved in SAF amoebae were difficult to identify because of poor preservation.
A new discovery, however, indicates that poor preservation is the problem.
Sumner, D. Y. Poor preservation potential of organics in Meridiani Planum hematite-bearing sedimentary rocks.
The poor preservation of the manuscript has allowed for such disparate analyses.
The diversity in red bed intervals with poor preservation potential varies between 11 and 21 species.
Palaeontologists are usually confronted with poor preservation and limited knowledge on the palaeoenvironment.
Giant cephalopods from the fossil record, especially squid species, suffer from the same poor preservation biases as extant species.
Poor preservation has led to much controversy over their structure and their arrangement on living plants from which they came.
Partly, this was due to poor preservation of macro-botanical remains at Epipaleolithic sites with the exception of Ohalo II.
