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A tale of three taphonomic modes: The Ediacaran fossil Flabellophyton preserved in limestone, black shale, and sandstone
Bin Wan, Zhe Chen, Xunlai Yuan, Ke Pang, Qing Tang, Chengguo Guan, Xiaopeng Wang, S.K. Pandey, Mary L. Droser, Shuhai Xiao
PII: S1342-937X(20)30127-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.04.003 Reference: GR 2340
To appear in: Gondwana Research
Received date: 24 September 2019 Revised date: 21 April 2020 Accepted date: 22 April 2020
Please cite this article as: B. Wan, Z. Chen, X. Yuan, et al., A tale of three taphonomic modes: The Ediacaran fossil Flabellophyton preserved in limestone, black shale, and sandstone, Gondwana Research (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.04.003
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