Discovery of lower Cambrian small shelly fossils and brachiopods from the Lower Vindhyan of Son Valley, Central India

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-389

  Azmi, R J ^a  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVERTEBRATE; PALEONTOLOGY;

INDIA;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 0032464108     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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