Taphonomy and paleoecology of a microvertebrate assemblage from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the Black Hills, Crook County, Wyoming

Brigham Young University Geology Studies

Volumn 46, Issue , 2001, Pages 13-33

  Foster, John R ^a  

^a Museum of Western Colorado   (United States)

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