Taphonomy of the greater phyllopod bed community, Burgess Shale

Palaios

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 451-465

  Caron, Jean Bernard ^a,b   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; POLYCHAETE; PRESERVATION; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALIA; CONFLUENS; METAZOA; PHYLLOPODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 33750209597     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R     Document Type: Article

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