Early Ordovician agnostoid trilobites from the southern Montagne Noire, France

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 477-495

  Tortello, M Franco ^a,b   Vizcaïno, Daniel ^c   Álvaro, J Javier ^b,d  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

^c Universidad de Zaragoza ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENIGIAN; FAUNA; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ORDOVICIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; TREMADOCIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; MONTAGNE NOIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

GERAGNOSTUS; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 33646446755     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[477:EOATFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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