Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia

Paleobiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 334-359

  Grotzinger, John P ^a   Watters, Wesley A ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; REEF; STROMATOLITE; THROMBOLITE;

NAMIBIA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; NAMA; NAMACALATHUS;

EID: 0033784036     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0334:CMITSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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