Revision of the conodont Idiognathodus simulator (Ellison 1941), the marker species for the base of the Late Pennsylvanian global Gzhelian Stage

Micropaleontology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-137

  Barrick, James E ^a   Heckel, Philip H ^b   Boardman, Darwin R ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONODONT; EVOLUTION; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN;

IDIOGNATHODUS; STREPTOGNATHODUS;

EID: 49049093822     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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