Chapter 9.2 Skeletonised Metazoans and Protists

Developments in Precambrian Geology

Volumn 16, Issue C, 2009, Pages 327-338

  Gaucher, Claudio ^a   Germs, Gerard J B ^b  

^a Instituto de Geología y Paleontología   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

biomineralisation; biostratigraphy; Cambrian explosion; Cloudina; Neoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749100890     PISSN: 01662635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2635(09)01623-5     Document Type: Review

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