A juvenile redlichiid trilobite caught on the move: Evidence from the Cambrian (Series 2) ChengJiang Lagersttte, Southwestern China

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 473-477

  Ou, Qiang ^a   Shu, Degan ^a,b   Han, Jian ^b   Zhang, Xingliang ^b   Zhang, Zhifei ^b   Liu, Jianni ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CAMBRIAN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JUVENILE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRACE FOSSIL;

CHENGJIANG; CHINA; YUNNAN;

EOREDLICHIA; REDLICHIIDA;

EID: 77951985746     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-105r     Document Type: Article

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