Environmental significance of trace fossil assemblages in a tide‒wave-dominated shallow-marine carbonate system (Lower Cretaceous), northern Neo-Tethys margin, Kopet-Dagh Basin, Iran

Author(s):  
Mahmoud Sharafi ◽  
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar ◽  
Juraj Janočko ◽  
Aram Bayet-Goll ◽  
Maryam Mohammadi ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. De Gibert ◽  
A. A. Ekdale

The shallow-marine Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) in central Utah hosts low-diversity trace fossil assemblages, including Arenicolites, Chondrites, Gyrochorte, Lockeia, Planolites, Protovirgularia, Rosselia, Scalarituba, Skolithos, Taenidium, and Teichichnus. Non specialized ichnotaxa with a remarkably small burrow size dominate the assemblages. The amount of bioturbation is lower than expected in comparison with modern shallow-marine carbonate environments. These ichnological features also are significantly different from those of other Jurassic shallow-marine carbonates. The trace fossils represent an environmentally stressed benthic community in a marginal marine, restricted setting, with salinities above normal marine and with depletion of oxygen in pore waters.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 546-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Massimo Petti ◽  
Simone D’Orazi Porchetti ◽  
Eva Sacchi ◽  
Umberto Nicosia

Facies ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
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Luis Alberto Buatois ◽  
María Gabriela Mángano ◽  
María Antonia Fregenal-Martínez ◽  
Jordi María de Gibert

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Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Taylor ◽  
Christopher T. Perry ◽  
Anthony M. Greenaway ◽  
Philip G. Machent

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