Revision of the athyrisininae, Siluro-Devonian Brachiopods from China and Russia

Palaeontology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 811-857

  Rong, Jia Yu ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^b   Modzalevskaya, Tatyana L ^c   Zhang, Yan ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d XI AN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Athyrisinins; Brachiopods; Bruntosina; China; Homeathyridinae; Russia; Siluro Devonian; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; NEW GENUS; NEW TAXON; NOMENCLATURE; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NOVAYA ZEMLYA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

ATHYRIDIDA; ATHYRIDIDAE; ATHYRININA TUMIDA; ATHYRISINA SQUAMOSA; ATHYRISINA XUI; ATHYRISINOIDES GANXIENSIS; ATHYRISINOIDES TUDILINGENSIS; BRACHIOPODA; BRUNTOSINA; CHEN; ENTOVALVA; HOMEATHYRIS; IKELLA; PARATHYRISINA CHENI; PARATHYRISINA MINIMA; PARATHYRISINA MINOR; PARATHYRISINA WANI; PSEUDOHOMEOSPIRA; SQUAMATHYRIS;

EID: 3543052926     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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