Surviving the end-Ordovician extinctions: Evidence from the earliest Silurian brachiopods of northeastern Jiangxi and western Zhejiang provinces, East China

Lethaia

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-48

  Rong, Jia Yu ^a   Zhan, Ren Bin ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brachiopods; Early Rhuddanian; East China; End Ordovician extinctions; Palaeoecology; Silurian; Survival

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; EXTINCTION; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGXI; ZHEJIANG;

ATRYPIDA; BRACHIOPODA; GLYPTORTHIS; ORTHIDA; PENTAMERIDA; STROPHOMENIDA;

EID: 33646378444     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160500443164     Document Type: Article

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