Trace fossils from the Dividalen Group, northern Sweden: Implications for early Cambrian biostratigraphy of Baltica

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-317

  Jensen, Sören ^a,b   Grant, Stephen W F ^a  

^a Historical Geology and Palaeontology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambrian biostratigraphy; Sweden; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032465776     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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