Euconodont paleobiogeography and the closure of the Iapetus Ocean

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1091-1094

  Armstrong, Howard A ^a   Owen, Alan W ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Euconodonts; Iapetus Ocean; Paleobiogeography

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES;

BELTS; BIODIVERSITY; MARINE BIOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENDEMISM; IAPETUS OCEAN; INVERTEBRATE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SILURIAN;

EID: 0036969580     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<1091:EPATCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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