Mosasaurs, limpets or diagenesis: How placenticeras shells got punctured

Fossil Record

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-102

  Seilacher, A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonite taphonomy; limpets; mosasaurs; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004889308     PISSN: 21930066     EISSN: 21930074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmng.19980010107     Document Type: Article

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