Chapter 9.3 Trace Fossils and the Agronomic Revolution at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition in Southwest Gondwana

Developments in Precambrian Geology

Volumn 16, Issue C, 2009, Pages 339-347

  Aceñolaza, Guillermo F ^a   Germs, Gerard J B ^b   Aceñolaza, Florencio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

biodiversity; Early Cambrian; Ediacaran; Nama Group; Puncoviscana Formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749101636     PISSN: 01662635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2635(09)01624-7     Document Type: Review

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