Detailed trilobite biostratigraphy across the proposed GSSP for stage 5("Middle cambrian"boundary) at the wuliu-zengjiayan section, Guizhou, Chine

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 423-464

  Sundberg, Frederick A ^a   Zhao, Yuanlong ^b   Yuan, Jinliang ^c   Lin, Jihpai ^c  

^a Show Low High School   (United States)

^b GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Kaili formation; South china; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CALCITE; CAMBRIAN; FAUNA; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TRILOBITE;

CHINA; GUIZHOU;

ACRITARCHA; ALGAE; BRACHIOPODA; ECHINODERMATA; MOLLUSCA; OLENOIDES; ORYCTOCEPHALIDAE; OVATORYCTOCARA GRANULATA; PAGETIA; PTYCHOPARIIDA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 80053349996     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1211     Document Type: Article

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