Taphonomic features of a Lower Permian beached cephalopod assemblage from central Texas

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 421-434

  Maeda, Haruyoshi ^a   Mapes, Royal H ^b   Mapes, Gene ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; DAMAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SHELL; SHORELINE; TAPHONOMY;

UNITED STATES;

AMMONOIDEA; CEPHALOPODA; CONIFEROPHYTA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0344944929     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0421:TFOALP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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