Taphonomic controls on Ediacaran diversity: Uncovering the holdfast origin of morphologically variable enigmatic structures

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 823-830

  Tarhan, Lidya G ^a   Droser, Mary L ^a   Gehling, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; QUARTZITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE; TAPHONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ASPIDELLA (METAZOAN); CHARNIODISCUS; METAZOA;

EID: 78649751215     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-074r     Document Type: Article

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