The fish and amphibian swimming traces Undichna and Lunichnium with examples from the Lower Permian of New Mexico, USA

Palaeontology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1123-1142

  Minter, Nicholas J ^a   Braddy, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural variation; Ichnotaxonomy; Robledo Mountains Formation; Subaqueous locomotion; Taphoseries; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; FISH; ICHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PERMIAN; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; TETRAPODA; UNDICHNA;

EID: 33748347953     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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