Escape traces associated with Rafinesquina alternata, an Upper Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod from the Cincinnati Arch Region

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 578-590

  Dattilo, Benjamin F ^a   Meyer, David L ^b   Dewing, Keith ^c   Gaynor, Matthew R ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; BRACHIOPOD; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LIMESTONE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; TRACE FOSSIL;

CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

BRACHIOPODA; SOWERBYELLA; STROPHOMENIDA;

EID: 77956498541     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-102r     Document Type: Article

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