Late Ordovician brachiopod faunas from Pomeroy, Northern Ireland: A palaeoenvironmental synthesis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 317-325

  Candela, Yves ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ashgill; Biofacies; Brachiopoda; Caradoc; Palaeoecology; Palaeoenvironments

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; BRACHIOPOD; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BIMURIA; BRACHIOPODA; CHONETOIDEA; EOSTROPHEODONTA;

EID: 33751237952     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026359330500012X     Document Type: Article

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