Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, northeastern British Columbia, Canada

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 146-171

  Pyle, Leanne J ^a   Barnes, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROFOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ACODUS KECHIKAENSIS; ACULEATA; AMORPHOGNATHUS; AMORPHOGNATHUS TVAERENSIS; BALTONIODUS VARIABILIS; BELODINA; CONODONTA; DISTOMODUS STAUROGNATHOIDES; DREPANOISTODUS LATUS; ENSIFER; EOPLACOGNATHUS SUECICUS; FLABELLUM; GAMACHIGNATHUS ENSIFER; JUMUDONTUS GANANDA; MICROZARKODINA FLABELLUM; MULTIOISTODUS; OEPIKODUS COMMUNIS; PHRAGMODUS UNDATUS; PLECTODINA ACULEATA; PSEUDOONEOTODUS; PTEROSPATHODUS; PTEROSPATHODUS AMORPHOGNATHOIDES; PYGODUS ANSERINUS; TRIPODUS LAEVIS; WALLISERODUS;

EID: 0037262341     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000043493     Document Type: Article

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