Drilling predation on recent clypeasteroid echinoids from the Red Sea

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-144

  Nebelsick, James H ^a   Kowalewski, Michał ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING; ECHINODERM; HOLOCENE; PREDATION;

RED SEA;

EID: 0032995484     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515369     Document Type: Article

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