Permo-Triassic arthropod trace fossils from the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-192

  Briggs, Derek E G ^a   Miller, Molly F ^b   Isbell, John L ^c   Sidor, Christian A ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckley; Fremouw; Gondwana; Mackellar; Permian; trackways

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BURROW; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLATITUDE; PEAT; PERMIAN; TRACE FOSSIL; TRACKWAY; TRIASSIC;

ANTARCTICA; BEARDMORE GLACIER; EAST ANTARCTICA;

ARTHROPODA; DIPLICHNITES; DIPLOPODICHNUS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954242288     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102009990708     Document Type: Article

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