Quantitative evaluation of the biostratigraphic distribution of acanthomorphic acritarchs in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 170-190

  McFadden, Kathleen A ^a   Xiao, Shuhai ^a   Zhou, Chuanming ^b   Kowalewski, Michał ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Doushantuo Formation; Ediacaran; Multivariate analysis; South China

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHERT; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIAGENESIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDIACARAN; FACIES; MICROFOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; THREE GORGES;

ACANTHOMORPHA; ACRITARCHA;

EID: 67650741765     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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