Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological aspects of the Cambro-Ordovician radiation of echinoderms in Gondwanan Africa and peri-Gondwanan Europe

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 73-97

  Lefebvre, Bertrand ^a   Fatka, Oldrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Echinoderms; Gondwana; Laurentia; Ordovician; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; ECHINODERM; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EUROPE;

BLASTOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; LAURENTIA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 0041767582     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00303-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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