A suite of dermestid beetle traces on dinosaur bone from the upper jurassic morrison formation, Wyoming, USA

Ichnos:an International Journal of Plant and Animal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-71

  Britt, Brooks ^a   Scheetz, Rodney ^a   Dangerfield, Anne ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Dinosauria; Ichnofossil; Insecta; Late Jurassic; Paleoecology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BONE; BURROW; DINOSAUR; ICHNOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION KEY; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

COLEOPTERA; DERMESTIDAE; DINOSAURIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 43049108072     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: 15635236     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940701193284     Document Type: Article

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