A biomechanical approach to Ediacaran hypotheses: how to weed the Garden of Ediacara

Lethaia

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-97

  Schopf, Kenneth M ^a   Baumiller, Tomasz K ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDIACARA; FLUID FLOW; MODE OF LIFE; MORPHOMETRY;

DICKINSONIA; PLEURONECTIFORMES;

EID: 0031693478     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00494.x     Document Type: Article

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