Vase-shaped microfossils from the neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon: A classification guided by modern testate amoebae

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 409-429

  Porter, Susannah M ^a,c   Meisterfeld, Ralf ^b   Knoll, Andrew H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFOSSIL; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PROTEROZOIC; TAXONOMY;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYCION MICRON; BONNIEA DACRUCHARES; BONNIEA PYTINAIA; CYCLIOCYRILLIUM SIMPLEX; CYCLIOCYRILLIUM TORQUATA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEMISPHAERIELLA ORNATA; MELANOCYRILLIUM HEXODIADEMA; MELICERION POIKILON; PALAEOARCELLA ATHANATA; TRACHYCYRILLIUM PUDENS; TRIGONOCYRILLIUM FIMBRIATUM; TRIGONOCYRILLIUM HORODYSKII;

EID: 0037534127     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0409:VMFTNC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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