Lower Ordovician reefs in the Honghuayuan formation at Dongzhi, Anhui: Microbial reefs just prior to the Ordovician biodiversification

Beijing Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-288

  Cao, Jun ^a   Liu, Jianbo ^a,b   Ezaki, Yoichi ^c   Adachi, Natsuko ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Girvanella; Great Ordovician biodiversification event; Honghuanyuan Formation; Microbialite; Reef

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549144209     PISSN: 04798023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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