Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048199617, 2011, Pages 535-548

  Krell, Frank T ^a   Schawaller, Wolfgang ^b  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coprinisphaera; Ichnofossils; Scarabaeidae; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925051623     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_19     Document Type: Chapter

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