Precambrian animal life: Taphonomy of phosphatized metazoan embryos from southwest China

Lethaia

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-109

  Dornbos, Stephen Q ^a   Bootjer, David J ^b   Chen, Jun Yuan ^c   Oliveri, Paola ^d   Gao, Feng ^d   Li, Chia Wei ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animal embryos; Doushantuo Formation; Neoproterozoic; Phosphatization; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; FOSSIL; METAZOAN; PHOSPHATIZATION; PRECAMBRIAN;

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

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 21244460684     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160510013187     Document Type: Article

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