New, early ostracods from the Ordovician (Tremadocian) of Iran: Systematic, biogeographical and palaeoecological significance

Alcheringa

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 517-529

  Pour, Mansoureh Ghobadi ^a   Mohibullah, Mohibullah ^b,c   Williams, Mark ^b   Popov, Leonid E ^d   Tolmacheva, Tatiana Yu ^e  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

^d DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e Russian Geological Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

biogeography; ecology; evolution; Iran; Ordovician; ostracods; Tremadocian

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; OSTRACOD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY; TREMADOCIAN;

ELBURZ; IRAN;

NANOPSIS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84863393303     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2011.538909     Document Type: Article

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