Microtubular metazoan fossils with multi-branches in Weng'an biota

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 630-632

  Liu, Pengju ^a   Yin, Chongyu ^a   Tang, Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Metazoan; Microtubular fossils; Sinian; Tabulates; Weng'an biota

Indexed keywords

CNIDARIA; METAZOA; SINIA;

EID: 33748859036     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-0630-6     Document Type: Article

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