New discoveries of Devonian vertebrates from South America, and implications for Gondwana-Euramerica contact;Nouvelles découvertes de vertébrés Dévoniens en Amérique du Sud et leurs implications dans le contact entre le Gondwana et l'Euramérique

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 332, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 755-761

  Young, Gavin C ^a   Moody, John M ^b   Casas, Jhonny E ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^c Maraven SA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Devonian fishes; Frasnian Famennian; Palaeogeography; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144261046     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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