A refined graptolite biostratigraphy for the late Ordovician-early Silurian of central Wales

Lethaia

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-96

  Blackett, Edward ^a   Page, Alex ^a,b   Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Williams, Mark ^a   Rickards, Barrie ^b   Davies, Jerry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Graptolites; Hirnantian; Rhuddanian; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; GRAPTOLITE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; ORDOVICIAN; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

NORMALOGRAPTIDAE; PERSCULPTOGRAPTUS PERSCULPTUS;

EID: 60849084474     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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