BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
1978 VoL. 26, No. 2-4 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRECAMBRIAN 
PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOBIOLOGY 
*STANLEY M. AWRAMIK AND **ELso S. BARGHOORN 
This bibliography was started in 1968 while the first author 
was a graduate student at Harvard University, and has been 
carried on as a continuing project since that time, primarily at 
the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since the litera- 
ture in this relatively new, but rapidly expanding area of 
paleontology is growing at an increasing rate, it was decided to 
make the bibliography available at this time to all workers in 
this and related fields. 
In selecting the references, an effort was made to exclude 
material which is purely, or largely, geochemical in context, 
and to avoid overlap with the comprehensive bibliography on 
‘*Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life’’. The latter has 
been published in Space Life Sciences 2 (1970): 225-295; 3 
(1973): 293-304; 4 (1973): 309-328; and in Origins of Life 5 
(1974): 507-527; 6 (1975): 285-300; 7 (1976): 75-85; 8 (1977): 
59-65. 
An effort has been made also to avoid duplication insofar as 
possible, of references which are indexed in the volume 
Stromatolites (edited by M.R. Walter, Elsevier, 1976), which 
contains a comprehensive bibliography of published work on 
stromatolites, both Precambrian and Phanerozoic. 
* Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 
93100. 
** Department of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138 
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