A vertebrate nesting site in northeastern Italy reveals unexpectedly complex behavior for Late Carnian reptiles

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 465-475

  Avanzini, Marco ^a,b   Dalla Vecchia, Fabio M ^c   Mietto, Paolo ^b   Piubelli, Daniele ^b   Preto, Nereo ^b   Rigo, Manuel ^b   Roghi, Guido ^d  

^a MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^d Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CARNIAN; FOOTPRINT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; NEST SITE; PALYNOLOGY; REPTILE; TRACE FOSSIL; TRACKWAY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARCHOSAURIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35148901517     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-137r     Document Type: Article

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