Taphonomy and paleoenvironmental setting of cetacean remains from the Middle Miocene of Tarragona (NE Spain);Tafonomía y contexto paleoambiental de los restos de un cetáceo del Mioceno medio de Tarragona (NE España)

Geobios

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-31

  Belaústegui, Zain ^a   de Gibert, Jordi M ^a   Domènech, Rosa ^a   Muñiz, Fernando ^b   Martinell, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Plaza de España s n   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Ichnology; Miocene; Taphonomy; Tarragona

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; DEPOSITION; FOSSIL; ICHNOLOGY; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY; TRANSGRESSION;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952067920     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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