Mud-filled Ophiomorpha from Upper Cretaceous continental redbeds of southern Mongolia: An ichnologic clue to the origin of detrital, grain-coating clays

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 451-458

  Loope, David B ^a   Dingus, Lowell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CLAY; CRETACEOUS; SANDSTONE; TRACE FOSSIL;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0033368936     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515396     Document Type: Article

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