Soft-sediment ichnotaxa from the Cenozoic White Limestone Group, Jamaica, West Indies

Scripta Geologica

Volumn , Issue 127, 2004, Pages 341-378

  Blissett, Donovan J ^a   Pickerill, Ron K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burrows; Cenozoic; Eocene Miocene; Jamaica; Systematics; West Indies

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CENOZOIC; ICHNOLOGY; LIMESTONE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

DIPLOCRATERION; GLOCKERICHNUS; OPHIOMORPHA NODOSA; PENICULUS;

EID: 2942672316     PISSN: 03757587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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