The dangers of high-rise living on a muddy seafloor: An example of crinoids from shallow-water mudstones (Aalenian, northern Switzerland)

Palaios

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-167

  Wetzel, Andreas ^a   Meyer, Christian A ^b  

^a Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; MUDSTONE; SEAFLOOR; SHALLOW WATER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 33646187097     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-132     Document Type: Article

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