The importance of plankton and nekton distributions in Ordovician palaeogeographical reconstructions

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 531-543

  Servais, Thomas ^a,b   Blieck, Alain ^b   Caridroit, Martial ^b   Chen, Xu ^c   Paris, Florentin ^d   Tortello, M Franco ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e MUSEO DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Chitinozoans; Graptolites; Ordovician; Palaeobiogeography; Radiolarians; Trilobites; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

NEKTON; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLANKTON; RECONSTRUCTION;

ACRITARCHA; ARBUSCULIDIUM FILAMENTOSUM; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; CHITINOZOA; CORYPHIDIUM; OSTRACODA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); STRIATOTHECA; TRILOBITOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32044454653     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.6.531     Document Type: Article

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