Great canadian Lagerstätten 2. macro- and microfossils of the mount cap formation (Early and Middle Cambrian, Northwest Territories)

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 165-174

  Harvey, Thomas H P ^a   Butterfield, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CAMBRIANS; DIVERSE RANGE; HARD PART; MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES; MICROFOSSILS; MICROSCOPIC SCALE; NEW FORMS;

ANIMALS;

CARBONACEOUS SHALE;

ARTHROPOD; CUTICLE; DIET; FECES; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MINERALIZATION; NEW SPECIES; PRESERVATION; SHELL; SKELETON;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHANCELLORIIDAE; CRUSTACEA; HYOLITHIDAE;

EID: 84857979309     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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