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Science 1 November 1991:
Vol. 254. no. 5032, pp. 689 - 691
DOI: 10.1126/science.254.5032.689
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Early Cambrian Foraminifera from West Africa

STEPHEN J. CULVER 1

1 Department of Geological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529

Agglutinated foraminifera have been recovered from siltstones in the Walidiala Valley, Taoudeni Basin, West Africa. Associated faunas suggest an Early Cambrian age for these strata. These now earliest known unequivocal foraminifera help constrain hypotheses concerning the origin of skeletalization at the beginning of the Phanerozoic.

Submitted on May 10, 1991
Accepted on July 22, 1991


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