Llanvirn (Middle Ordovician) echinoderms from Llandegley rocks, Central Wales

Palaeontology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 685-708

  Botting, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echinoderms; Llanvirn; Ordovician; Wales

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; LLANVIRNIAN; MORPHOLOGY; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

ASTEROIDEA; CEFNOCRINUS SAMGILMOURI; CRINOIDEA; CYSTOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; IOCRINUS LLANDEGLEYI; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 0041663553     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00316     Document Type: Article

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