Problematica, trace fossils, and tubes within the Ediacara Member (South Australia): Redefining the Ediacaran trace Fossil record one tube at a time

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-265

  Sappenfield, Aaron ^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

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; ICHNOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79952416280     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/10-068.1     Document Type: Article

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