North Gondwana mid-Palaeozoic connections with Euramerica and Asia: Devonian vertebrate evidence

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 242, 2003, Pages 169-185

  Young, Gavin C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Biostratigraphy; Devonian; Gondwana; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GONDWANA; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; ENTOVALVA; GALEASPIDIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037823176     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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