Burgess shale-type biotas were not entirely burrowed away

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-286

  Gaines, Robert R ^a   Droser, Mary L ^b   Orr, Patrick J ^c   Garson, Daniel ^b   Hammarlund, Emma ^d,e   Qi, Changshi ^f   Canfield, Donald E ^d  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ANOXIA; BIOTURBATION; CAMBRIANS; CHENGJIANG; FOSSIL RECORDS; INFAUNAL ACTIVITY; LIMITING EFFECTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAZOA; ORGANIC MATTER RECYCLING; SOFT-BODIED PRESERVATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; IGNEOUS ROCKS;

SHALE;

BIOTA; BIOTURBATION; BURGESS THEORY; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; PHANEROZOIC; SHALE; TAPHONOMY;

CHENGJIANG; CHINA; YUNNAN;

METAZOA; PHYLLOPODA;

EID: 84858125029     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32555.1     Document Type: Article

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