Diverse ichnofossil assemblages following the P-T mass extinction, LOWER TRIASSIC, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada: Evidence for shallow marine refugia on the Northwestern Coast of Pangaea

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 368-392

  Zonneveld, John Paul ^a   Gingras, Murray K ^a   Beatty, Tyler W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ICHNOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECOLONIZATION; REFUGE; SHALLOW WATER; SUCCESSION; TRACE FOSSIL; TRIASSIC;

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ARTHROPODA; CRUZIANA; DIPLICHNITES; INVERTEBRATA; MONOMORPHICHNUS; RHIZOCORALLIUM; THALASSINOIDES; TRICHOPHYCUS;

EID: 77953279027     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-135r     Document Type: Article

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