Paleoecology and taphonomy of an edrioasteroid-dominated hardground association from tentaculitid limestones in the Early Devonian of New York: A Paleozoic rocky peritidal community

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 212-224

  Cornell, Sean R ^a   Brett, Carlton E ^a   Sumrall, Colin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; INVERTEBRATE; LIMESTONE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY;

UNITED STATES;

BALANIDAE; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; BRYOZOA; EDRIOASTEROIDEA; ENTOVALVA; HOWELLELLA; HOWELLELLA VANUXEMI; INVERTEBRATA; LEPERDITIA; OSTRACODA; PTERIOIDEA; TENTACULITES; TENTACULITES GYRACANTHUS; TENTACULITIDAE; THORACICA;

EID: 0042203897     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0212:PATOAE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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