The ammonite biostratigraphy of the Lower Lias 'Armatum Bed' (Upper Sinemurian-Lower Pliensbachian) at St Peter's Field, Radstock, Somerset

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-96

  Edmunds, Murray ^a   Varah, Mark ^b   Bentley, Alan ^c  

^a Watermeadow Medical   (United Kingdom)

^b Rikenel   (United Kingdom)

^c Bath Property and Legal Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIENSBACHIAN; SINEMURIAN;

ENGLAND (SOMERSET); RADSTOCK; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMMONOIDEA; APODEROCERAS FEROX; APODEROCERAS SPARSINODUM; APODEROCERAS SUBTRIANGULARE; ECHIOCERAS RARICOSTATUM; EPIDEROCERAS; FASTIGICERAS CLAUSUM; INVERTEBRATA; PALTECHIOCERAS APLANATUM; PHRICODOCERAS TAYLORI; TETRASPIDOCERAS; TETRASPIDOCERAS WESTFIELDENSE; UPTONIA JAMESONI; VICININODICERAS;

EID: 0037361677     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(03)80028-7     Document Type: Article

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