Ordovician echinoderms from the Tabas and Damghan regions, Iran: Palaeobiogeographical implications

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-242

  Lefebvre, Bertrand ^a   Ghobadipour, Mansooreh ^b,c   Nardin, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blastozoans; Diploporites; Echinoderms; Iran; Ordovician; Palaeobiogeography; Rhombiferans

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; ORDOVICIAN;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

AMPHORIDES; BLASTOZOA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOSPHAERITES;

EID: 20544435123     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.3.231     Document Type: Article

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