Morphology, microstructure and stratigraphy of some late cretaceous radiolitid rudists from Jamaica

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-171

  Mitchell, Simon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Jamaica; Maastrichtian; Rudist bivalves; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; CANCELLATA; RADIOLITIDAE;

EID: 3442894966     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/GC.2003.10     Document Type: Article

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