Discoveries of new Longfengshaniaceae from the uppermost Ediacaran in eastern Yunnan, South China and the significance

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-149

  Tang, Feng ^a   Song, Xueliang ^b   Yin, Chongyu ^a   Liu, Pengju ^a   Awramik, S M ^c   Wang, Ziqiang ^d   Gao, Linzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Yunnan Inst of Technology   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern Yunnan; Ediacaran; Jiucheng Member; Longfengshaniaceae

Indexed keywords

ALGA; EDIACARAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 34250209179     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-007-0018-1     Document Type: Article

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