meiofauna
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Origin of meiofauna
C20: from Greek meiōn less + fauna
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Becker-Kerber, who is now conducting postdoctoral research at Harvard University, explains that if the marks had truly been left by animals, they would represent evidence of meiofauna during the Ediacaran period.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
Fossil evidence clearly shows meiofauna existed during the Cambrian, but the new findings suggest they may not have been present earlier in the way some scientists proposed.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
Thiel was interested in the region’s largely unstudied meiofauna — the tiny animals that live on and between the nodules.
From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019
Living between the wet sand grains is a whole universe of microscopic life: the meiofauna.
From Scientific American • Sep. 16, 2013
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