The advent of hard-part structural support among the Ediacara biota: Ediacaran harbinger of a Cambrian mode of body construction

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 307-310

  Clites, Erica C ^a   Droser, Mary L ^a   Gehling, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; EDIACARA BIOTA; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL RECORDS; MULTI-ELEMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; STRUCTURAL SUPPORT; TRUNCATED CONE;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

BIOLOGY;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOTA; CAMBRIAN; CHITIN; EDIACARAN; FAUNA; FOSSIL RECORD; METAZOAN; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

METAZOA;

EID: 84861399162     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32828.1     Document Type: Article

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