Taphonomy of ammonites from the Santonian-Lower Campanian Santa Marta formation, Antarctica: Sedimentological controls on vertically embedded ammonites

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 586-597

  Olivero, Eduardo B ^a  

^a Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Ténicas ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; CAMPANIAN; MORPHOTYPE; SANTONIAN; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELL; TAPHONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

ANTARCTICA;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 36348989618     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-118r     Document Type: Article

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