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The New Zealand Zoophycos revisited: Morphology, ethology, and paleoecology

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Yaghub Nasiri, Moussavi-Harami Reza, Asadollah Mahboubi, Davide Olivero & Hossein Mosaddegh. (2020) Zoophycos ichnogenus distribution and paleoenvironmental analysis: examples from the Mississippian Mobarak formation (Alborz Basin, Iran). Historical Biology 32:6, pages 848-867.
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Fehmy Belghouthi, Andreas Wetzel, Hédi Zouari & Rekaya-Selwa Jeddi. (2020) Zoophycos in storm-affected environments: a case study from lower Maastrichtian deposits of the Mateur-Beja area (Northern Tunisia). Ichnos 27:2, pages 200-220.
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Mao Luo & G.R. Shi. (2017) First record of the trace fossil Protovirgularia from the Middle Permian of southeastern Gondwana (southern Sydney Basin, Australia). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 41:3, pages 335-349.
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Greg M. Baniak, Larry Amskold, Kurt O. Konhauser, Karlis Muehlenbachs, S. George Pemberton & Murray K. Gingras. (2014) Sabkha and Burrow-Mediated Dolomitization in the Mississippian Debolt Formation, Northwestern Alberta, Canada. Ichnos 21:3, pages 158-174.
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Rebekah Manley & D. W. Lewis. (1998) Ichnocoenoses of the Mount Messenger Formation, a Miocene submarine fan system, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 41:1, pages 15-33.
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D. Olivero & C. Gaillard. (1996) Paleoecology of Jurassic Zoophycos from south‐eastern France. Ichnos 4:4, pages 249-260.
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Andreas Wetzel. (1992) Forum. Ichnos 2:1, pages 91-92.
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