Fish diversity of the Bear Gulch Limestone, Namurian, lower carboniferous of Montana, USA

Geobios

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-295

  Lund, Richard ^a   Poplin, Cécile ^b  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carboniferous; Fish; Marine; North America; Paleoenvironment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBONIFEROUS; FISH; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032800852     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(99)80042-4     Document Type: Article

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