Ordovician vertebrate habitats: A Gondwanan perspective

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 717-722

  Davies, Neil S ^a   Sansom, Ivan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; BOLIVIA; OMAN;

PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955307690     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-040r     Document Type: Article

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