Triploblastic animals more than 1 billion years ago: Trace fossil evidence from India

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5386, 1998, Pages 80-83

  Seilacher, Adolf ^a,b   Bose, Pradip K ^c   Pflüger, Friedrich ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; EVOLUTION; PROTEROZOIC; TRACE FOSSIL;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; WORM; ZOOLOGY;

INDIA;

EID: 0032475928     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5386.80     Document Type: Article

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