Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician conodont communities from platform and slope facies, western Newfoundland: A statistical approach

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 230, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-72

  Zhang, Shunxin ^a   Barnes, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONODONT; ORDOVICIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CORDYLODUS; CORDYLODUS PROAVUS;

EID: 4644366791     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.230.01.04     Document Type: Article

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