Precambrian sponges with cellular structures

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5352, 1998, Pages 879-882

  Li, Chia Wei ^a   Chen, Jun Yuan ^b   Hua, Tzu En ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE;

PRECAMBRIAN; SPONGE;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHINA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

CHINA, GUIZHOU PROVINCE;

EID: 0032488780     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5352.879     Document Type: Article

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51. We thank P.-H. Chao for technical help. Supported by the National Science Council, the Foundation of the National Museum of Natural Science (C.-W. Li and T.-E. Hua), and the National Committee of Sciences and Technology, the National Sciences Foundation of China, the National Geographic Society (grant no. 5670-96) (J.-Y. Chen).