Palaeogeographical controls on the Cambrian trilobite immigration and evolutionary patterns reported in the western Gondwana margin

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 5-35

  Álvaro, J Javier ^a   Elicki, Olaf ^b   Geyer, Gerd ^c   Rushton, Adrian W A ^d   Shergold, John H ^e  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e Benayes   (France)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cambrian; Extinction; Palaeogeography; Trilobites; Western Gondwana

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CAMBRIAN; EXTINCTION; GONDWANA; MIGRATION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

TRILOBITA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0041673354     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00300-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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