Pattern versus process or informative versus uninformative ichnotaxonomy: Reply to Todd and Palmer

Ichnos

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 85-87

  Donovan, Stephen K ^a   Pickerill, Ron K ^b  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioclaustrations; Borings; Ichnotaxonomy; Oichnus; Tremichnus

Indexed keywords

BORING; ICHNOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

TREMICHNUS;

EID: 0036988116     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940216415     Document Type: Article

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