Earliest Carboniferous tetrapod and arthropod faunas from Scotland populate Romer's Gap

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4532-4537

  Smithson, Timothy R ^a   Wood, Stanley P ^c   Marshall, John E A ^b   Clack, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ballagan formation; End Devonian mass extinction; Lungfish; Rhizodonts; Terrestriality

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CARBONIFEROUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TETRAPOD; TOURNAISIAN; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRATE;

AMNIOTA; ARTHROPODA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858640285     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117332109     Document Type: Article

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