Large vertebrate burrow from the Upper Mississippian Mauch Chunk Formation, eastern Pennsylvania, USA

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 341-347

  Storm, Lauren ^a   Needle, Mattathias D ^a   Smith, Casey J ^a   Fillmore, David L ^a   Szajna, Michael ^b   Simpson, Edward L ^a   Lucas, Spencer G ^c  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State Museum of Pennsylvania   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Mississippian; Pennsylvania; Vertebrate burrows

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BURROW; CONGLOMERATE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOMETRY; MISSISSIPPIAN; MUDSTONE; PALEONTOLOGY; SANDSTONE;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649798767     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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