Review of the trilobites from the Middle Ordovician Barr Group, Girvan district, Scotland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 87-102

  Tripp, R P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cheek; cranidium; hypostome; palaeoecology; pygidium; rostral plate; taxonomy; thoracic segment

Indexed keywords

BARR GROUP; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOECOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TRILOBITE;

UK, SCOTLAND, STRATHCLYDE, GIRVAN;

EID: 0027799239     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300003424     Document Type: Article

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