Late middle cambrian trace fossils from the lejopyge armata horizon, zanskar valley, India and the use of precambrian/cambrian ichnostratigraphy in the Indian subcontinent

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2002, Pages 135-151

  Hughes, Nigel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Himalaya; Ichnostratigraphy; Trace fossils

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EID: 16644362446     PISSN: 00386804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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