Protichnites eremita unshelled? Experimental model-based neoichnology and new evidence for a euthycarcinoid affinity for this ichnospecies

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 442-454

  Collette, Joseph H ^a   Gass, Kenneth C ^b   Hagadorn, James W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Denver Museum of Nature and Science ^*  (United States)

^c DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elk Mound Group; eremita; euthycarcinoid; Protichnites; trace fossils

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ICHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; TRACE FOSSIL; TRACKWAY;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; EUTHYCARCINOIDEA; LIMULIDAE; PROTICHNITES;

EID: 84861156372     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/11-056.1     Document Type: Article

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