Progress in describing Ordovician siliceous biodiversity from the Southern Uplands (Scotland, U.K.)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 489-498

  Danelian, Taniel ^a   Floyd, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crawford Group; Radiolaria; Scotland; sponges

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHERT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; SPONGE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

KONYRIUM VARIUM; PROTOCERATOICISKUM CLARKSONI; RADIOLARIA;

EID: 0034886713     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008336     Document Type: Article

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