The stormy path from life of death assemblages: The formation and preservation of mass accumulations of fossil sand dollars

Palaios

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 378-393

  Nebelsick, James H ^a   Kroh, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; CENOZOIC; MASS MORTALITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; TAPHONOMY;

EGYPT; TURKEY;

CLYPEASTEROIDA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; PARASCUTELLA;

EID: 0036670633     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2002)017<0378:TSPFLT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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