Rare helical spheroidal fossils from the Doushantuo Lagerstätte: Ediacaran animal embryos come of age?

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-118

  Xiao, Shuhai ^a   Hagadorn, James W ^b   Zhou, Chuanming ^c   Yuan, Xunlai ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Animal embryos; Computed tomography; Doushantuo formation; Ediacaran; South China

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYOS; SPHEROIDAL FOSSILS; SPIRAL STRUCTURE; ACID DIGESTION; CO-OCCURRENCE; DOUSHANTUO FORMATION; EDIACARAN; MEGASPHAERA; PHYLOGENETIC AFFINITY; SOUTH CHINA; SPIRAL STRUCTURES;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; CANALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

GEOLOGY; ANIMALS;

EDIACARAN; EMBRYO; FOSSIL; ICHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; ACID DIGESTION; ADULT; ANIMAL; CANAL; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PHOSPHORITE; TUNNEL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; DOUSHANTUO BASIN; GUIZHOU;

ANIMALIA; MEGASPHAERA ORNATA;

EID: 33846950417     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23277A.1     Document Type: Article

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