Response of brachiopod communities to environmental change during the Late Ordovician mass extinction interval, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

Fossils and Strata

Volumn , Issue 54, 2008, Pages 41-51

  Jin, Jisuo ^a   Copper, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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