Ichnology of the late Pleistocene Port Morant Formation of southeastern Jamaica

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 12-32

  Pickerill, Ron K ^a   Donovan, Stephen K ^b   Mitchell, Simon F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICHNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0031689490     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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