An enormous Jurassic turtle bone bed from the Turpan Basin of Xinjiang, China

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 925-935

  Wings, Oliver ^a,b   Rabi, Márton ^b,c   Schneider, Jörg W ^d   Schwermann, Leonie ^e   Sun, Ge ^f,g   Zhou, Chang Fu ^g   Joyce, Walter G ^b,h  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Konzentratlagerst tte; Middle Jurassic; Taphonomy; Testudines; Xinjiangchelyidae

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BONE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLAST; DEBRIS FLOW; DROUGHT; EPISODIC EVENT; EROSION; JURASSIC; RAINFALL; RIVER BED; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; TURTLES;

CHINA; TURPAN BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

TESTUDINES; XINJIANGCHELYIDAE;

EID: 84871492524     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0974-5     Document Type: Article

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