Do partly outdated palaeontological data produce just a noise? An assessment of the middle devonian-mississippian biodiversity dynamics in central Asia on the basis of soviet-time compilations

Geologos

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-47

  Ruban, Dmitry A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Late devonian; Mass extinctions; Middle devonian; Mississippian; Palaeobiodiversity; Palaeontological data

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955065863     PISSN: 14268981     EISSN: 20806574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10118-011-0003-8     Document Type: Article

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