A mixed ophiuroid-stylophoran assemblage (Echinodermata) from the Middle Ordovician (Llandeilian) of western Britanny, France

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 275, Issue , 2007, Pages 71-86

  Hunter, Aaron W ^a,b   Lefebvre, Bertrand ^a   Régnault, Serge ^c   Roussel, Philippe ^d   Claverie, Roland ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Museum d'Histoire Naturelle   (France)

^d Résidence le Clos des Chênes ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; TAPHONOMY;

BRETAGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MORBIHAN; WESTERN EUROPE;

ECHINODERMATA; OPHIUROIDEA; SCHISTES;

EID: 34247269179     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.275.01.05     Document Type: Article

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