Open AccessTrace fossils from proglacial lake sediments
Author(s) -
GIBBARD PHILIP L.,
STUART ANTHONY J.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1974.tb00829.x
Subject(s) - trace fossil , geology , trace (psycholinguistics) , pleistocene , paleontology , invertebrate , archaeology , ecology , geography , biology , philosophy , linguistics
Trace fossils have been discovered in Middle Pleistocene proglacial lake sediments from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. They indicate that this environment was capable of supporting a variety of benthonic animals. The fossils are described and tentatively assigned to several invertebrate groups.