Upper Ordovician chitinozoan biostratigraphy from the type Ashgill area (Cautley district) and the Pus Gill section (Dufton district, Cross Fell Inlier), Cumbria, Northern England

Geological Magazine

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 783-807

  Vandenbroucke, Thijs R A ^a,b   Rickards, Barrie ^c   Verniers, Jacques ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ashgill; Avalonia; Biozonation; Cautley; Chitinozoa; Pus Gill

Indexed keywords

ASHGILL; AVALONIA; BIOZONATION; CAUTLEY; CHITINOZOA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHITIN; ORDOVICIAN;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANCYROCHITINA; BELONECHITINA POSTROBUSTA; BURSACHITINA; CHITINOZOA; CONOCHITINA; FUNGOCHITINA; MERGA; ONNIA; SPINACHITINA FOSSENSIS;

EID: 32044446245     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756805000944     Document Type: Article

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