Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 629-634

  Wisshak, Max ^a   Volohonsky, Eden ^b   Blomeier, Dierk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acanthodii; Devonian; Fish trails; Old Red Sandstone; Spitsbergen; Svalbard; Trace fossils; Undichna

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FISH; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

ACANTHODII; ENTOVALVA; PRAGIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8644288218     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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