Complex decapod burrows and ecological relationships in modern and Pleistocene intertidal carbonate environments, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 192, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 229-245

  Curran, H Allen ^a   Martin, Anthony J ^b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Callianassid and upogebiid shrimp; Complex trace fossils; Decapod burrows; Fiddler crabs; Quaternary; Sea level indicators

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CARBONATE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRACE FOSSIL;

BAHAMAS; SAN SALVADOR;

CALLIANASSIDAE; COLUMBA; CREEDIIDAE; DECAPODA (CEPHALOPODA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GLYPTURUS ACANTHOCHIRUS; OCYPODIDAE; THALASSINIDEA; UPOGEBIA VASQUEZI; UPOGEBIIDAE;

EID: 0037444120     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00687-9     Document Type: Article

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