Late ordovician to early silurian gondwanan cephalopods of the pin formation (Spiti, northern India)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 10, 2006, Pages 595-612

  Suttner, Thomas J ^a,b   Kröger, Björn ^a,c  

^a Institut für Paläontologie ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cephalopods; Early silurian; Late ordovician; Northern India; Palaeobiogeography; Pin formation

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; NAUTILIDA;

EID: 33750683924     PISSN: 00283630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpm/2006/2006/595     Document Type: Article

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