Quantifying paleogeography using biogeography: A test case for the Ordovician and Silurian of Avalonia based on brachiopods and trilobites

Paleobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-363

  Lees, David C ^a   Fortey, Richard A ^a   Cocks, L Robin M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; AVALONIA; BRACHIOPOD; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SILURIAN; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; TRILOBITA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0038209839     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0343:QPUBAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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