Sedimentology and palaeoecology of ernietta-bearing ediacaran deposits in Southern Namibia: Implications for infaunal vendobiont communities

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

Volumn 131, Issue , 2011, Pages 473-506

  Bouougri, El Hafid ^a   Porada, Hubertus ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a   Reitner, Joachim ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

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EID: 79551563258     PISSN: 09300317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_29     Document Type: Article

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