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Post-Palaeozoic Brachiopod Ecology: a Re-assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. F. Elliott
G. F. Elliott
Affiliation:
Iraq Petroleum Company, Geological Department, 214 Oxford Street, London, W.1
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Abstract

Consideration of the field occurrence of certain post-Palaeozoic brachioppds, and of published experimental work on the transport of brachiopod shells by water, leads to the conclusion that these fossils are often deceptive as evidence of former conditions at the places where they now occur fossil, due to shell-transport by marine currents after death.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 93 , Issue 3 , June 1956 , pp. 196 - 200
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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