Yes, that is a reasonable, though clumsy, appellation.  Of course, benthos as well as plankton contributed to the sediments that became petroleum, but your newly coined term is apt.  But it applies to "synthetic" oil just the same as to non-synthetic.  mcneely

---- John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>   Plankton oil, then??
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> John Rodgers
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> On 4/27/2011 12:53 PM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
> > Certainly, the derisive "dino oil" is a complete misnomer.

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