Palaeoenvironmental setting of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, Southern England

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-20

  Batten, David J ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Fossils; Invertebrates; Palaeoenvironment; Palynomorphs; Purbeck; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544266791     PISSN: 00386804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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