Subspeciation within a punctuated equilibrium evolutionary event: Phylogenetic history of the Lower-Middle Ordovician Paroistodus originalis-P. Horridus complex (Conodonta)

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 492-502

  Albanesi, Guillermo L ^a   Barnes, Christopher R ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM;

ARGENTINA; PRECORDILLERA;

ARGENTINA (FISH); CONODONTA; IAPETUS; LAURENTIA; PAROISTODUS; PAROISTODUS HORRIDUS; PAROISTODUS ORIGINALIS;

EID: 0034080648     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000031759     Document Type: Article

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