Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany)

Palaeontology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 215-232

  Briggs, Derek E G ^a   Bartels, Christoph ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Deutsches Bergbau Museum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fossil Lagerst tte; Polychaete; Pyritization

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBONIFEROUS; EMSIAN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYCHAETE;

GERMANY; HUNSRUCK; RHENISH SCHIEFERGEBIRGE; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

ACICULATA; ANNELIDA; POLYCHAETA; SCOLECIDA;

EID: 74749107306     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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