Fishes and tetrapods in the upper pennsylvanian (kasimovian) cohn coal member of the mattoon formation of illinois, United States: Systematics, paleoecology, and paleoenvironments

Palaios

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 639-657

  Carpenter, David ^a   Falcon Lang, Howard J ^b   Benton, Michael J ^a   Nelson, W John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; VERTISOL;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DICENTRODUS; ORTHACANTHUS; PISCES; SPIRORBIDAE; TETRAPODA; TRIODUS; VERTEBRATA; XENACANTHUS;

EID: 80054687864     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-121r     Document Type: Article

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