Dinosaur tracks and possible lungfish aestivation burrows in a shallow coastal lake; lowermost Cretaceous, Bornholm, Denmark

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 267, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 292-304

  Surlyk, Finn ^a   Milàn, Jesper ^a   Noe Nygaard, Nanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dinosaur tracks; Early Cretaceous; Ecosystem; Lacustrine; Lungfish burrows

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; ECOSYSTEM; ESTIVATION; FISH; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY;

BORNHOLM; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ASTACOIDEA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51249085384     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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