Traces of marine nematodes from 470 million years old early ordovician rocks in china

Nematology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 567-574

  Baliński, Andrzej ^a   Sun, Yuanlin ^b   Dzik, Jerzy ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

bioturbation; evolution; Fenxiang Formation; nematode tracks; trace fossils

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CAMBRIAN; CLAY MINERAL; FOSSIL RECORD; NEMATODE; ORDOVICIAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PYRITE;

CHINA; HUBEI;

EID: 84885747828     PISSN: 13885545     EISSN: 15685411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685411-00002702     Document Type: Article

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