Fish oblique to edding in early diagenetic concretions from the cretaceous santana formation of Brazil-implications for substrate consistency

Palaeontology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1011-1026

  Martill, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CRETACEOUS; FISH; TAPHONOMY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0031425568     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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