Taphonomy of the upper ediacaran enigmatic ribbonlike fossil shaanxilithes

Palaios

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 354-372

  Meyer, Mike ^a   Schiffbauer, James D ^a   Xiao, Shuhai ^a   Cai, Yaoping ^b   Hua, Hong ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COEXISTENCE; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOSPHATE; SHALE; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

CHINA; SHAANXI;

EID: 84862116315     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2011.p11-098r     Document Type: Article

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