Lower and Middle Ordovician shell beds from the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States (California, Nevada, and Utah)

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-233

  Li, Xing ^a   Droser, Mary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORDOVICIAN; SHELL BED;

UNITED STATES;

BRACHIOPODA; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; OSTRACODA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0033150799     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515435     Document Type: Article

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