Echinoderm palaeoecology from fragments: a tool for facies recognition in mesozoic carbonate sequences

Echinoderms such as crinoids (sea lilies), are a major component of the marine benthos from the late Palaeozoic onwards, where they occurred in such high number so as to be rock forming. On death echinoderms will typically disarticulate into many thousands of ossicles which are considered by many pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, Aaron
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16291