Global Ordovician vertebrate biogeography

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 37-54

  Blieck, Alain ^a   Turner, Susan ^b,c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agnatha; Baltica; Gnathostomata; Gondwana; Laurentia; Siberia

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; VERTEBRATE;

AGNATHA; ARANDASPIS; ASTRASPIS; CHONDRICHTHYES; ERIPTYCHIUS; GEA; LAURENTIA; PTERASPIDOMORPHI; SACABAMBASPIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042769785     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00301-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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