New occurrences of the trace fossil Paleodictyon in shallow marine environments: Examples from the Triassic-Jurassic of Iran

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 408-416

  Fürsich, Franz T ^a   Taheri, Jafar ^a   Wilmsen, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION VELOCITY; ICHNOFACIES; JURASSIC; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SHALLOW WATER; TRACE FOSSIL; TRIASSIC; TURBIDITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

NEREITES; SOLEIDAE;

EID: 34447532343     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-041r     Document Type: Article

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