A new Lagerstätte from the Middle Ordovician St. Peter formation in northeast Iowa, USA

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 969-972

  Liu, Huaibao P ^a   McKay, Robert M ^a   Young, Jean N ^b   Witzke, Brian J ^a   McVey, Kathlyn J ^b   Liu, Xiuying ^c  

^a Iowa Geological Survey   (United States)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conodonts; Eurypterids; Jawless fish; Lagerst tte; Phyllocarids; Soft bodied fossils; St. Peter Sandstone

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; TISSUE;

CONODONTS; EURYPTERIDS; JAWLESS FISH; PHYLLOCARIDS; SOFT-BODIED FOSSILS;

GEOLOGY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONODONT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVERTEBRATE; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; VERTEBRATE;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGNATHA; EURYPTERIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PHYLLOCARIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750959018     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22911A.1     Document Type: Article

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