A new species of Hallucigenia from the Cambrian stage 4 Wulonging Fromation of Yunnan (South China) and the structure of sclerites in lobopodians

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-124

  Steiner, Michael ^a   Hu, Shixue ^b   Liu, Jianni ^a,c   Keupp, Helmut ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Fossil lagerst tte; Guanshan; Hallucigenia; Lobopodians; Sclerites

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEW SPECIES; SCLERITE;

CHINA; KUNMING; YUNNAN;

HALLUCIGENIA; MICRODICTYON;

EID: 84863230435     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1280     Document Type: Article

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