First record of a Hirnantia Fauna from Spain, and its contribution to the Late Ordovician palaeogeography of northern Gondwana

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-197

  Villas, E ^a   Lorenzo, S ^b   Gutierrez Marco J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b Minas de Almadén   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Almad n; Ashgill; Brachiopods; Central Spain; Ciudad Real; Criadero Quartzite; Hirnantian

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; NEW RECORD; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

BRACHIOPODA; HIRNANTIA;

EID: 0032469694     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263593300007124     Document Type: Article

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