A tale of both sides of Iapetus - upper Darriwilian (Ordovician) graptolite faunal dynamics on the edges of two continents

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 841-859

  Maletz, Jörg ^a   Egenhoff, Sven ^a   Böhme, Martina ^b   Asch, Robert ^c   Borowski, Katarina ^c   Höntzsch, Stefan ^d   Kirsch, Moritz ^e   Werner, Mirko ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; BIOZONES; ELEGANS; FAUNAL COMPOSITION; FAUNAL DYNAMICS; NEWFOUNDLANDS; ORDOVICIAN; SCANDINAVIA; SHALLOW-WATER;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ANIMALS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIRD; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA SET; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHALLOW WATER;

BALTIC REGION; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; SCANDINAVIA;

ANSER; DICELLOGRAPTUS; HOLMOGRAPTUS;

EID: 79960770956     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e10-105     Document Type: Article

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