Earliest Cambrian fossil embryos and their fossilization processes and paleoceanographic background

Fossils

Volumn , Issue 84, 2008, Pages 5-17

  Kunimitsu, Yoko ^a   Kano, Akihiro ^a   Yasui, Kinya ^a   Shu, Degan ^b   Han, Jian ^b   Hua, Hong ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Animal embryo; Cambrian; Mineral composition; Paleocean; Permineralization; Stable isotope; Trace element

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CAMBRIAN; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EMBRYO; FOSSIL; FOSSILIZATION; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHELL; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAPHONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHAANXI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 55349116707     PISSN: 00229202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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