Anomalous facies and ancient faeces in the latest middle Cambrian of Sweden

Lethaia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-84

  Eriksson, Mats E ^a   Terfelt, Fredrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agnostus pisiformis Zone; Barren intervals; Coprolites; Phosphatocopines; Sweden; Trophic structure; Upper middle Cambrian

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; COPROLITE; FECES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

AGNOSTUS PISIFORMIS; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; MARJUMIIDAE; METAZOA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 33947181013     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2006.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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