Latest Ordovician brachiopod and trilobite assemblage from Yuhang, northern Zhejiang, East China: A window on Hirnantian deep-water benthos

Historical Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-148

  Rong, Jia Yu ^a   Huang, Bing ^a   Zhan, Ren Bin ^a   Harper, David ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deep water; E China; End Ordovician extinction; Hirnantian; Shelly fauna

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; TRILOBITE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUHANG; ZHEJIANG;

BRACHIOPODA; DALMANITINA; LEANGELLA; NORMALOGRAPTUS PERSCULPTUS;

EID: 52649087200     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912960701673944     Document Type: Article

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