Middle Cambrian echinoderms from north Spain show echinoderms diversified earlier in Gondwana

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 507-510

  Zamora, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; FOSSIL DISCOVERIES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; CAMBRIAN; ECHINODERM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

SPAIN;

BLASTOZOA; CTENOCYSTOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; EDRIOASTEROIDEA;

EID: 77955929089     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30657.1     Document Type: Article

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