Reef corals from the lower Cambrian of the flinders ranges, South Australia

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 961-980

  Fuller, Margaret ^a   Jenkins, Richard ^a  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corals; Early Cambrian; Flinders ranges; Megabreccia; Moorowie

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CLAST; CORAL; SKELETAL REMAINS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TALUS; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA; TABULATA;

EID: 34547427982     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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