Preservation of imprints and casts of cells of the outer mantle epithelium in the shells of Cambrian brachiopods, mollusks, and problematics

Paleontological Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 251-263

  Ushatinskaya, G T ^a   Parkhaev, P Yu ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cambrian small shelly fossils; Cells of mantle epithelium; Postmortem phosphatization; Preservation in fossil

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 22744440208     PISSN: 00310301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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