The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 395-398

  Rogov, Vladimir ^a   Marusin, Vasiliy ^a   Bykova, Natalia ^a   Goy, Yuriy ^a   Nagovitsin, Konstantin ^a   Kochnev, Boris ^a   Karlova, Galina ^a   Grazhdankin, Dmitriy ^a  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; ECOSPACE; EDIACARAN; PALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; SIBERIA;

GEOLOGY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; BIOTURBATION; CARBONATE RAMP; EARTH; EDIACARAN; EMPLACEMENT; ICHNOFABRIC; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TRACE FOSSIL;

SIBERIA;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA;

EID: 84861358999     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32807.1     Document Type: Article

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