Diverse pelagic predators from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and the establishment of modern-style pelagic ecosystems in the early Cambrian

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 307-316

  Hu, Shixue ^a,c   Steiner, Michael ^c   Zhu, Maoyan ^b   Erdtmann, Bernd Dietrich ^c   Luo, Huilin ^a   Chen, Liangzhong ^a   Weber, Bernd ^d  

^a Yunnan Institute of Geological Sciences   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chengjiang Lagerst tte; Early Cambrian; Pelagic; Pelagic ecosystem; Predators

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; FOOD WEB; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; LAGERSTATTE; MEROPLANKTON; NEKTON; NEW SPECIES; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHENGJIANG; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

ACLIS; ANOMALOCARIS; ARTHROPODA; CHAETOGNATHA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); ISOXYS;

EID: 34548731348     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.044     Document Type: Article

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