The molluscan fauna of the Coralline Crag (Pliocene, Zanclean) at Raydon Hall, Suffolk, UK: Palaeoecological significance reassessed

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 53-72

  Long, Peter E ^a   Zalasiewicz, Jan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coralline Crag; Ecology; Environment; Molluscs; Pliocene; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BRYOZOAN; COEXISTENCE; DEEP WATER; DOMINANCE; EPIFAUNA; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; MOLLUSC; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PRESERVATION; RECONSTRUCTION; RED ALGA; TAPHONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; NORTH SEA; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; HETERANOMIA; LIMOPSIS; MOLLUSCA; SPISULA; TURRITELLA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 79960631086     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.039     Document Type: Article

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