Mechanisms of fossilization of the soft-bodied and lightly armored faunas of the Burgess Shale and of some other classical localities

American Journal of Science

Volumn 301, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 683-726

  Petrovich, Radomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2475/ajs.301.8.683     Document Type: Article

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