Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 711-714

  Vannier, Jean ^a   Calandra, Ivan ^a,b   Gaillard, Christian ^a   Zylińska, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIANS; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; ECOSPACE; EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS; FEEDING STRATEGIES; FOOD CHAIN; GUT CONTENTS; PRECAMBRIAN; THREE DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; SUBSTRATES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BENTHOS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BURROW; FAUNA; ICHNOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; TRACE FOSSIL;

ANIMALIA; CREEDIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PRIAPULIDA; PRIAPULIDAE; PRIAPULUS; TREPTICHNUS; TREPTICHNUS PEDUM;

EID: 77955950034     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30829.1     Document Type: Article

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