Ordovician edrioasteroids from Morocco: Faunal exchanges across the Rheic Ocean

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-454

  Sumrall, Colin D ^a   Zamora, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Echinodermata; Edrioasteroidea; Ordovician; Palaeobiogeography; Palaeozoic; Perigondwana

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS;

MOROCCO;

CEPHALOPODA; CONULARIIDA; ECHINODERMATA; EDRIOASTEROIDEA; EOCRINOIDEA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 77956918309     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2010.499137     Document Type: Article

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