Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 67-99

  Steiner, Michael ^a   Li, Guoxiang ^b   Qian, Yi ^b   Zhu, Maoyan ^b   Erdtmann, Bernd Dietrich ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Lower Cambrian; Palaeontology; Small shelly fossils; South China; Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVERTEBRATE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SIBERIA; SOUTH ASIA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

MICRODICTYON; PELAGIELLA; TANNUOLINA ZHANGWENTANGI; WATSONELLA;

EID: 34548676602     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.046     Document Type: Article

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