Behavioral biology of trace fossils

Paleobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 459-473

  Plotnick, Roy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; ICHNOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRESERVATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TAPHONOMY; TRACE FOSSIL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84868132580     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/11008.1     Document Type: Article

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