Clavate borings in a Miocene cetacean skeleton from Tarragona (NE Spain) and the fossil record of marine bone bioerosion

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 323-325, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-74

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioerosion; Cetacea; Gastrochaenolites; Miocene; Taphonomy; Tarragona

Indexed keywords

BIOEROSION; BIVALVE; BORING; CETACEAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; SEAFLOOR; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TARRAGONA BASIN;

BIVALVIA; CETACEA; GASTROCHAENOLITES; PHOLADIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858340719     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.031     Document Type: Article

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