An Upper Jurassic Boreal echinoderm Lagerstätte from Janusfjellet, central Spitsbergen

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 133-148

  Rousseau, Julie ^a   Nakrem, Hans Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTECOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; TAPHONOMY;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ASTERIIDAE; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDA; ISOCRINIDA; OPHIACANTHIDAE; OPHIURIDA; OPHIURINAE; PEDINOIDA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 84867680802     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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