The paradox of nonmarine ichnofaunas in tidal rhythmites: Integrating sedimentologic and ichnologic data from the late Carboniferous of eastern Kansas, USA

Palaios

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 467-481

  Buatois, Luis A ^a   Mangano, M Gabriela ^a   Maples, Christopher G ^a   Lanier, William P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CARBONIFEROUS; DIPLICHNITES GOULDI; DIPLOPODICHNUS; HELMINTHOIDICHNITES TENUIS; INSECTA; KOUPHICHNIUM; MERMIA; MIRANDAICHNIUM; MIRANDAICHNIUM FAMATINENSE; SCOYENIA; STEPHANIA; TETRAPODA; TREPTICHNUS; TREPTICHNUS BIFURCUS; UNDICHNA; UNDICHNA BRITANNICA; VIRGILIA;

CARBONIFEROUS; NONMARINE ICHNOFAUNA; RHYTHMITES; TIDAL DEPOSIT;

USA, KANSAS;

EID: 0031402391     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515384     Document Type: Article

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