A route to recovery: The early Silurian shallow-water shelly fauna in the northern Oslo basin

Lethaia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-184

  Owen, Alan W ^a   Harper, David A T ^b   Heath, Rachel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Heath and Hardie Geosciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachiopods; Ordovician Silurian boundary; Pioneer taxa; Survivor taxa; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; FAUNA; SHALLOW WATER; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY; TRILOBITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HADELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OPPLAND; SCANDINAVIA;

BRACHIOPODA; COOLINIA; DALMANELLA; LEPTAENA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 43849095782     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00109.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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