Diminutive trace fossils in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 407-412

  Zhang, Xi Guang ^a   Bergström, Jan ^b   Bromley, Richard G ^c   Hou, Xian Guang ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; ICHNOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

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

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA;

EID: 36549006993     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00765.x     Document Type: Article

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