Palaeobiogeographic and evolutionary meaning of an early Late Tournaisian ammonoid fauna from the Tafilalt of Morocco

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-92

  Korn, Dieter ^a   Bockwinkel, Jürgen ^b   Ebbighausen, Volker ^c   Klug, Christian ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Palaontologie Eberhard Karls Univ ^*  (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonoide; Carboniferous; Morocco; Palaeobiogeographya; Tournaisian

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; CARBONIFEROUS; ENDEMISM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; TOURNAISIAN;

MOROCCO;

AMMONOIDEA; GONIATITIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037363969     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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