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Discovery of Late Precambrian trace fossils in Jersey, Channel Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. D. Squire
A. D. Squire
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Chelsea College, University of London, 271–3 King Street, London, W 6
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Summary

Feeding burrow trace fossils are recorded from the Upper Brioverian of St Ouen's Bay, Jersey. The traces resemble Sabellarites (Dawson) and represent deep water turbidity metazoans of Late Precambrian age, which are unknown in the remaining Brioverian of the Massif Armoricain.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 110 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 223 - 226
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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