A re-evaluation of Famennian echinoderm diversity: Implications for patterns of extinction and rebound in the Late Devonian

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 314, Issue , 2009, Pages 149-161

  Waters, J A ^a   Webster, G D ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; EXTINCTION; FAMENNIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BLASTOIDEA; CLADIDA; CRINOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; PELMATOZOA;

EID: 70349118303     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP314.8     Document Type: Article

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