Restriction of a late Neoproterozoic biotope: Suspect-microbial structures and trace fossils at the Vendian-Cambrian transition

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-85

  Hagadorn, James W ^a   Bottjer, David J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TRACE FOSSIL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033066103     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515362     Document Type: Article

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