Preservational and morphological variability of assemblages of agglutinated eukaryotes in cryogenian cap carbonates of Northern Namibia

Palaios

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 67-79

  Dalton, Lilly A ^a   Bosak, Tanja ^b   MacDonald, Francis A ^c   Lahr, Daniel J G ^d   Pruss, Sara B ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBONATE; DEPOSITION; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL RECORD; FOSSILIZATION; GLACIATION; LAMINATION; LITHIFICATION; MICROFOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; TAPHONOMY;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 84874644053     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-084r     Document Type: Article

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