Relative hydrodynamic dispersal potentials of soft-shelled turtle elements: Implications for interpreting skeletal sorting in assemblages of non-mammalian terrestrial vertebrates

Palaios

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-164

  Blob, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CHELONIAN; CRETACEOUS; HYDRODYNAMIC SORTING; POST MORTEM TRANSPORT; REPTILE; TAPHONOMY;

USA, MONTANA;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030885685     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515304     Document Type: Article

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