Trace fossil associations in the swedish mickwitzia sandstone (lower cambrian): Did trilobites really hunt for worms?

GFF

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-250

  Rydell, Jens ^a   Hammarlund, Jemima ^a   Seilacher, Adolf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cruziana; Palaeoecology; Predation; Rusophycus; Sandstone; Sweden; Trilobites; V sterg tland

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CRUZIANA; MICKWITZIA; RUSOPHYCUS; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0040924225     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035890101234247     Document Type: Article

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