Evolutionary paleoecology of the earliest echinoderms: Helicoplacoids and the Cambrian substrate revolution

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 839-842

  Dornbos, S Q ^a   Bottjer, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Cambrian; Echinoderms; Helicoplacoids

Indexed keywords

SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

BIOTURBATION; CAMBRIANS; ECHINODERMS; HELICOPLACOIDS; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SUSPENSION FEEDER; SUSPENSION FEEDING; TRANSITIONAL PERIOD;

SUBSTRATES;

BIOTURBATION; CAMBRIAN; EVOLUTION; PALEOECOLOGY;

ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 84879882313     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<839:EPOTEE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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