Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-323

  Blom, H ^a   Marss T ^b   Miller, C G ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agnatha; Anaspida; Arctic and northwestern Canada; Birkeniida; British Isles; Central Urals; correlation; dermal skeleton; Estonia; Norway; Palaeozoic; Severnaya Zemlya; Sweden; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEVONIAN; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

AGNATHA; ANASPIDA; BIRKENIA ELEGANS; BIRKENIA ROBUSTA; HOBURGILEPIS PAPILLATA; LIIVILEPIS CURVATA; MANBROOKIA ASPERELLA; MAURYLEPIS LACRIMANS; PHARYNGOLEPIS OBLONGA; PTERYGOLEPIS NITIDA; RHYNCHOLEPIS BUTRIANGULA; RHYNCHOLEPIS PARVULA; RUHNULEPIS LONGICOSTATA; RYTIDOLEPIS QUENSTEDTII; SCHIDIOSTEUS MUSTELENSIS; SEPTENTRIONIA DISSIMILIS; SEPTENTRIONIA LANCIFERA; SEPTENTRIONIA MUCRONATA; SEPTENTRIONIA SEDUCTA; SILMALEPIS ERINACEA; SPOKOINOLEPIS ALTERNANS; TAHULALEPIS ELONGITUBERCULATA; TAHULALEPIS KINGI; VESIKULEPIS FUNIFORMA;

EID: 0036291574     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000250     Document Type: Article

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