Taphonomy of Ediacaran acritarchs from Australia: Significance for taxonomy and biostratigraphy

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 239-256

  Grey, Kathleen ^a,b   Willman, Sebastian ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEGRADATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MATURATION; MICROFOSSIL; PRECAMBRIAN; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

ACRITARCHA;

EID: 63849116500     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-020r     Document Type: Article

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