Taphonomy of a Middle Pennsylvanian marine vertebrate assemblage and an actualistic model for marine abrasion of teeth

Palaios

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 466-479

  Irmis, Randall B ^a,b   Elliott, David K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PENNSYLVANIAN; TAPHONOMY; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE;

ARIZONA; KOHLS RANCH; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRYOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; MYLIOBATIS; ODONTASPIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750223503     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.P05-105R     Document Type: Article

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