The Verdun Syndrome: Simultaneous origin of protective armour and infaunal shelters at the Precambrian-Cambrian transition

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 286, Issue , 2007, Pages 405-414

  Dzik, J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; PREDATION; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SHELTER; SKELETON; SUCCESSION; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL; TRIGGER MECHANISM; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PODOLIA; SIBERIA; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38349156681     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP286.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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