Life after snowball: The oldest complex Ediacaran fossils

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-30

  Narbonne, Guy M ^a   Gehling, James G ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avalon; Ediacaran; Neoproterozoic; Newfoundland; Paleontology; Snowball earth

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FOSSILS;

GLACIERS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EARLY EARTH; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NEW SPECIES; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTEROZOIC;

CANADA;

EID: 0037281460     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0027:LASTOC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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