Lower Cambrian trace fossils from northern Greenland
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The earliest annelids: Lower Cambrian polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North Greenland
Apart from the Phyllopod Bed of the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian) polychaete annelids are practically unknown from any of the Cambrian Lagerstätten. This is surprising both because their diversity in the Burgess Shale is considerable, while to date the Chengjiang Lagerstätte which is equally impressive in terms of faunal diversity has no reliable records of any annelids. Here we describe, on ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse
سال: 1988
ISSN: 2597-2944,0418-6559
DOI: 10.34194/rapggu.v137.8013