A complex microbiota from snowball earth times: Microfossils from the neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, USA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4399-4404

  Corsetti, Frank A ^a   Awramik, Stanley M ^b   Pierce, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; LIFE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; MICROBIOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037447048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0730560100     Document Type: Article

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