| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4746344 | Comptes Rendus Palevol | 2007 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Fossil oyster assemblages have a great diversity of geometries. Their accumulations can be tridimensional (shell bed), within a strata, or bidimensional, on a strata surface (hardground). A taphonomic analysis can be used to discriminate these assemblages according to the way in which time has been recorded in sedimentary sequences. This preliminary analysis conditions palaeoenvironmental interpretations. Thus, a typology of the various existing assemblages is proposed according to several examples of shellbeds of the Upper Cretaceous of the North-Aquitaine basin (SW France) and the Upper Neogene of AndalucÃa (SE Spain).
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Authors
Blaise Videt,