The terebratulid Kutchithyris (Brachiopoda) from the Jurassic sequence of Kutch, western India - Revisited

Paleontological Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-128

  Mukherjee, Debahuti ^a   Bardhan, Subhendu ^b   Datta, Kalyanbrata ^c   Ghosh, Diptendu N ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Indian School of Mines ^*  (India)

^d INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Brachiopods; Jurassic; Kutchithyris; Systematics; Western India

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; EVOLUTION; JURASSIC; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

INDIA; KUTCH BASIN;

BRACHIOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; KUTCHITHYRIS; KUTCHITHYRIS ACUTIPLICATA; KUTCHITHYRIS EURYPTYCHA; KUTCHITHYRIS PROPINQUA; TEREBRATULIDA;

EID: 0141460803     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.7.111     Document Type: Article

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