Complex behavioural pattern as an aid to identify the producer of Zoophycos from the Middle Permian of Oman

Lethaia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-154

  Knaust, Dirk ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complex trace fossil; Huqf; Khuff Formation; Middle Permian; Polychaeta; Zoophycos

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; FECAL PELLET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MARINE SEDIMENT; PERMIAN; POLYCHAETE; TRACE FOSSIL;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

ANIMALIA; POLYCHAETA; ZOOPHYCOS;

EID: 65449135530     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00120.x     Document Type: Article

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