Early Cambrian metazoan fossil record of South China: Generic diversity and radiation patterns

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 229-249

  Li, Guoxiang ^a   Steiner, Michael ^b   Zhu, Xuejian ^a   Yang, Aihua ^c   Wang, Haifeng ^a   Erdtmann, Bernd D ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diversification pattern; Early Cambrian; Generic diversity; Metazoa; South China

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CAMBRIAN; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; METAZOAN; PHOSPHOGENESIS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

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

ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; HELCIONELLIDA; METAZOA;

EID: 34548760857     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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