The age of the Middle Cambrian ‘Paradoxides forchhammeri Grit’ of the Wrekin district, Shropshire, England

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 335-346

  Rushton, A W A ^a   Berg Madsen, V ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

correlation; facies; trilobites

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

PARADOXIDES FORCHHAMMERI; TRILOBITA;

EID: 0036293933     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300000274     Document Type: Article

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