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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There's no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.

Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But aren't their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.