A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the "thin" Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 811-814

  Caron, Jean Bernard ^a   Gaines, Robert R ^b   Mángano, M Gabriela ^c   Streng, Michael ^d   Daley, Allison C ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CAMBRIANS; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; NATIONAL PARKS; NEAR FIELDS; NEW SPECIES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTRICTIVE CONDITIONS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

GLACIERS; PARKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SHALE;

ABUNDANCE; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ICHNOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; TAXONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 77958097526     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31080.1     Document Type: Article

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