Trace fossil Rhizocorallium from the Middle Triassic of the Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain: Characterization and environmental implications

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 78-86

  Rodríguez Tovar, Francisco J ^a   Pérez Valera, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICHNOFACIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL; TRIASSIC; WATER COLUMN;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CRUSTACEA; RHIZOCORALLIUM;

EID: 39649088025     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-007r     Document Type: Article

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