Late Cretaceous sharks in the Opole Silesia region (SW Poland)

Geologia Sudetica

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Niedźwiedzki, Robert ^a   Kalina, Marcin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Elasmobranchii; Lamniform sharks; Opole Silesia; Palaeoenvironment; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DIET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHARK; TOOTH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; OPOLE; OPOLSKIE; POLAND; SILESIA;

EID: 2142822893     PISSN: 0072100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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