Lower Ordovician stratigraphy and trilobite faunas from the southern famatina range, la Rioja, Argentina

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2003, Pages 213-239

  Tortello, M Franco ^a   Esteban, Susana B ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Biostratigraphy; Ordovician; Palaeoenvironment; Palaeogeography; Systematics; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044463949     PISSN: 00386804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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