Palaeoecology of the early cambrian sinsk biota from the siberian platform

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 69-88

  Ivantsov, Andrey Yu ^a   Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu ^b   Leguta, Anton V ^a   Krassilov, Valentin A ^a   Melnikova, Lyudmila M ^a   Ushatinskaya, Galina T ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biovolume; Early Cambrian; Individual abundance; Palaeoecology; Trophic nucleus

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; WORLD;

ALGAE; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; LETHRINIDAE; PHYLLOPODA;

EID: 17144374578     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.01.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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