steinkern

steinkern

[′shtīn‚kərn]
(geology)
Rock material formed from consolidated mud or sediment that filled a hollow organic structure, such as a fossil shell.
The fossil formed after dissolution of the mold. Also known as endocast; internal cast.
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The comparable characters completely correspond with those of the steinkern from Trbovlje (former Trifail, Slovenia).
Nuevos ejemplares del Oligoceno superior de los sedimentos lacustres de la dolina Oberleichtersbach (Baja Franconia, Baviera, Alemania)
Description of a muscle scar and two other novel features from steinkerns of Hypomphalocirrus (Mollusca: Paragastropoda).
Muscle scars in euomphaline gastropods from the Ordovician of Baltica/Lihaste kinnitusjaljed euomphaliinsetel tigudel Baltika Ordoviitsiumis
Invertebrate macrofossils in these calcarenites are scarce, in part because of its diagenetic history which has turned them to decalcified limestones with moldic porosity, but nevertheless layers of accumulated orbitoidids and mollusc steinkerns occur.
Late Cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages of the Lano Quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update
Also present are many steinkerns, most likely of Ilynassa.
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