Biodiversification of Late Ordovician Hirnantia fauna on the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1800-1810

  Zhan, RenBin ^a   Liu, JianBo ^a,b   Percival, Ian G ^c   Jin, JiSuo ^d   Li, GuiPeng ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

biodiversification; Hirnantia Fauna; Hirnantian; Ordovician; South China; Upper Yangtze Platform

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSIFICATION; HIRNANTIA FAUNA; HIRNANTIAN; ORDOVICIAN; SOUTH CHINA; UPPER YANGTZE PLATFORM;

ANIMALS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; FAUNA; HIRNANTIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 78649976040     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3     Document Type: Article

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