Ediacaran fossils from the southwestern Great Basin, United States

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 349-359

  Hagadorn, James W ^a   Waggoner, Ben ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEICHNIUM; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CLOUDINA; CORUMBELLA; INYO; ONUPHIONELLA; PEDUM; TREPTICHNUS; TREPTICHNUS PEDUM;

EID: 0034013670     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000031553     Document Type: Article

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