Organic compositions of the embryo-bearing lowermost Cambrian Kuanchuanpu formation on the northern Yangtze platform, China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 280, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 499-506

  Kunimitsu, Yoko ^a   Togo, Tetsuhiro ^a   Sampei, Yoshikazu ^b   Kano, Akihiro ^c   Yasui, Kinya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomarker; C N ratio; Fossil embryo; Organic geochemistry; Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CAMBRIAN; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL; GEOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHAANXI; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CNIDARIA; EUKARYOTA; OLIVOOIDES;

EID: 69049092586     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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