How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 447-450

  Gehling, James G ^a   Droser, Mary L ^b  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; EDIACARA BIOTA; EDIACARAN; PRECAMBRIAN; SOFT-BODIED PRESERVATION; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TAPHONOMY; WHITE SEA;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION;

BENTHOS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTA; EDIACARAN; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875500361     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33881.1     Document Type: Article

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