Queues of blind phacopid trilobites Trimerocephalus: A case of frozen behaviour of Early Famennian age from the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland

Acta Geologica Polonica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-481

  Radwański, Andrzej ^a   Kin, Adrian ^b   Radwańska, Urszula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b Geoscience Friends Association 'Phacops'   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eco taphonomy; Famennian; Frozen behaviour; Holy cross mountains; Mass mortality; Migratory queues; Poland; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

EMERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FAMENNIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FREEZING; MARL; MASS MORTALITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TAPHONOMY; TRILOBITE;

POLAND; SWIETOKRZYSKIE; SWIETOKRZYSKIE MOUNTAINS;

ARTHROPODA; PHACOPIDA; TRILOBITOMORPHA; TRIMEROCEPHALUS;

EID: 75249102154     PISSN: 00015709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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