When the worm turned: Concordance of Early Cambrian ichnofabric and trace-fossil record in siliciclastic rocks of South Australia

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 625-628

  Droser, Mary L ^a   Gehling, James G ^b   Jensen, Sören ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; EARLY CAMBRIANS; INFAUNAL ACTIVITY; INITIAL DEVELOPMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; SILICICLASTIC ROCKS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TRACE FOSSILS;

GEOLOGY;

CAMBRIAN; ICHNOFACIES; TRACE FOSSIL; TYPE SPECIMEN;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

TREPTICHNUS PEDUM;

EID: 0032749177     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0625:WTWTCO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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