Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: Implications for early biomineralization

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 184-190

  Wood, Rachel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Cambrian; Competition; Ediacaran; Predation; Reefs

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CAMBRIAN; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EARLY EARTH; EDIACARAN; EXOSKELETON; LITERATURE REVIEW; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; REEF;

BILATERIA; CLOUDINA; CNIDARIA; METAZOA; NAMACALATHUS;

EID: 79953198995     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.01.011     Document Type: Review

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