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An unusual ferruginous-calcitic Frutexites microbialite community from the lower Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

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Acknowledgements

Elinor Alexander (Department of State Development South Australia, Adelaide) mapped the Flinders Unconformity red crust at Wirrealpa Mine in 2007 as a contribution to a biostratigraphic project of P.D. Kruse. Marta Rodríguez-Martínez (University Complutense, Madrid), and Jan-Peter Duda (University of Göttingen) reviewed the manuscript and are greatly acknowledged for helpful suggestions.

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  1. Department of Geobiology, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidt Str. 3, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Joachim Reitner

  2. School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095, Australia

    Nick Langsford

  3. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, PO Box 825, Normanville, SA, 5204, Australia

    Peter D. Kruse

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Reitner, J., Langsford, N. & Kruse, P.D. An unusual ferruginous-calcitic Frutexites microbialite community from the lower Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. PalZ 91, 1–3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0342-z

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