Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7277, 2010, Pages 43-48

  Niedwiedzki, Grzegorz ^a   Szrek, Piotr ^a,b   Narkiewicz, Katarzyna ^b   Narkiewicz, Marek ^b   Ahlberg, Per E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; TETRAPOD; TIDAL FLAT; TRACKWAY;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; FISH; FOSSIL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIDDLE DEVONIAN; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TETRAPOD;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA; EXTREMITIES; FISHES; FOSSILS; GAIT; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POLAND;

TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73849143937     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08623     Document Type: Article

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