Identification of chitin in 200-million-year-old gastropod egg capsules

Paleobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wysokowski, Marcin ^a   Zatoń, Michał ^e   Bazhenov, Vasilii V ^b   Behm, Thomas ^b   Ehrlich, Andre ^b   Stelling, Allison L ^c   Hog, Martin ^d   Ehrlich, Hermann ^b  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CHITIN; CUTICLE; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; EGG; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; JURASSIC; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; SHELL;

POLAND; SWIETOKRZYSKIE; SWIETOKRZYSKIE MOUNTAINS;

ARTHROPODA; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NERITOPSINA;

EID: 84923799431     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/13083     Document Type: Article

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