Mode of life of the middle Cambrian eldonioid lophophorate Rotadiscus

Palaeontology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 385-396

  Dzik, Jerzy ^a   Yuanlong, Zhao ^b   Maoyan, Zhu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b GUIZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; ELDONIOID; LOPHOPHORATE; ROTADISCUS;

CHINA;

EID: 0031463782     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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