Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 129-152

  Steiner, Michael ^a   Zhu, Maoyan ^b   Zhao, Yuanlong ^c   Erdtmann, Bernd Dietrich ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Burgess Shale type preservation; Chengjiang; China; Lower Cambrian; Palaeontology; Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; SHALE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

ARTHROPODA; ISOXYS; SCENELLA; TSUNYIDISCUS;

EID: 17044374006     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.06.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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