A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Lethaia

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-163

  Wisshak, Max ^a   Volohonsky, Eden ^b   Seilacher, Adolf ^b   Freiwald, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Devonian; Ichnology; Old Red Sandstone (ORS); Red beds; Sedimentology; Spitsbergen; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; ICHNOLOGY; OLD RED SANDSTONE; TRACE FOSSIL;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; CRUZIANA; ENTOVALVA; PHYLLOCARIDA; TOBRILUS;

EID: 3242808142     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160410005763     Document Type: Article

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