Biogeographic analyses of the Ediacara biota: A conflict with paleotectonic reconstructions

Paleobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 440-458

  Waggoner, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

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BIOGEOGRAPHY; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033507819     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300020315     Document Type: Article

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