Lower and Middle Jurassic flysch trace fossils from the eastern Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgaria: A contribution to the evolution of Mesozoic ichnodiversity

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-199

  Tchoumatchenco, Platon ^a   Uchman, Alfred ^b,c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^b Inst Palaeontology Wurzburg Univ   (Germany)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLYSCH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; OLISTOLITH; TRACE FOSSIL; TURBIDITE;

BALKAN MOUNTAINS; BULGARIA;

NEREITES; VIR;

EID: 0012426702     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/213/1999/169     Document Type: Article

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