Modern mucociliary creeping trails and the bodyplans of Neoproterozoic trace-makers

Paleobiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-55

  Collins, Allen G ^a   Lipps, Jere H ^a   Valentine, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICHNOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; TRACE FOSSIL;

ALGAE; BILATERIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 0034069684     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2000)026<0047:MMCTAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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