A new Late Silurian or Early Devonian Thelodont from the Boothia Peninsula, Arctic Canada

Palaeontology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1079-1099

  Marss T ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; PHYLOGENY; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

BOOTHIA PENINSULA; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

BOOTHIALEPIS THORSTEINSSONI; ENTOVALVA; REPTILIA; THELODONTI;

EID: 0343819841     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00111     Document Type: Article

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