A new angle on strophomenid paleoecology: Trace-Fossil evidence of an escape response for the plectambonitoid brachiopod Sowerbyella rugosa from a tempestite in the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Edenian) of Northern Kentucky

Palaios

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 332-348

  Dattilo, Benjamin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; TEMPESTITE; TRACE FOSSIL;

KENTUCKY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRACHIOPODA; PLECTAMBONITOIDEA; STROPHOMENIDA; STROPHOMENOIDEA;

EID: 4544324810     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0332:ANAOSP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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