Large-Diameter Burrows of the Triassic Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina: Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Implications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Colombi, Carina E ^a,b   Fernández, Eliana ^b   Currie, Brian S ^c   Alcober, Oscar A ^b   Martínez, Ricardo ^b   Correa, Gustavo ^a,b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BURROWING SPECIES; ECTENINION; FOSSIL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROBELESODON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TETRAPOD; UPPER TRIASSIC;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870793977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050662     Document Type: Article

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