Pellets independent of or associated with Bohemian Ordovician body fossils

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 437-445

  Bruthansová, Jana ^a   Kraft, Petr ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bohemia; Ichnofossils; Ordovician; Palaeoecology; Pellets; Taphonomy; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

EGG; ICHNOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; TAPHONOMY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

BELLEROPHONTIDAE; ECHINODERMATA; LETHRINIDAE; ORMATHOPS; TRILOBITA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0141885992     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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