Environmental distribution of spinose brachiopods from the Devonian of New York: Test of the soft-substrate hypothesis

Palaios

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 184-193

  Leighton, Lindsey R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR; DEVONIAN; PROTECTIONISM; SOFT CLAY;

UNITED STATES;

BRACHIOPODA; ENTOVALVA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034210116     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2000)015<0184:EDOSBF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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