Exceptional fossil preservation and the Cambrian explosion

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 166-177

  Butterfield, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMISKWIA; ARTHROPODA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; HYOLITHIDAE; WIWAXIA;

EID: 0042354767     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/43.1.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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