The oldest deep-sea Ophiomorpha and Scolicia and associated trace fossils from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deep-water turbidite deposits of SW Bulgaria

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 85-99

  Tchoumatchenco, Platon ^a   Uchman, Alfred ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Cretaceous; Jurassic; Ophiomorpha; Scolicia; Trace fossils; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA; ICHNOLOGY; JURASSIC; TRACE FOSSIL; TURBIDITE;

BULGARIA;

ECHINOIDEA; NEREITES; SCOLICIA; TITHONIA;

EID: 0035340847     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00218-8     Document Type: Article

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