A new anaspid fish from the middle Silurian Cowie Harbour fish bed of Stonehaven, Scotland

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 594-600

  Blom, Henning ^a  

^a Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; HOMOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SILURIAN; SKULL;

ABERDEENSHIRE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; STONEHAVEN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANASPIDIFORMES;

EID: 54849438136     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[594:ANAFFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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