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 The method of sample processing also has a surprisingly strong influence on the particular fossil group(s) a scientist will study. Each of the three sub-disciplines of micropaleontology (in the loose sense) have their own distinctive preparation techniques and each will favour the recovery of microfossils within that particular sub-discipline. For example, traditional micropaleontological preparation techniques are such that foraminifera (all types), ostracods, diatoms, radiolarian and conodonts are all potentially recoverable from samples using the same processing/analytical workflow. Also, palynological preparations do not exclude any of the four main palynomorph fossil types. The only factors that will exclude individual fossil types from samples will be the age of the rock, the environment of deposition and the type of lithology. See below for further discussion on this topic.
-In an applied situation, biostratigraphers will often need to “turn their hand” to working with any fossils they may find in their various prepared samples. A “micropaleontologist”, for example, may be a foraminifera specialist but he or she will be expected to also try and identify species of other microfossil types found in the same sample (e.g. ostracods or radiolaria). Should more expertise be required then another specialist may be assigned or contracted in.
+In an applied situation, biostratigraphers will often need to turn their hand to working with any fossils they may find in their various prepared samples. A “micropaleontologist”, for example, may be a foraminifera specialist but he or she will be expected to also try and identify species of other microfossil types found in the same sample (e.g. ostracods or radiolaria). Should more expertise be required then another specialist may be assigned or contracted in.