The earliest rugose coral

Geological Magazine

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 371-380

  Baars, Christian ^a   Ghobadi Pour, Mansoureh ^b   Atwood, Robert C ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coral evolution; Darriwilian; Iran; Lambelasmatidae; Ordovician; Rugosa; synchrotron X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CORAL EVOLUTION; DARRIWILIAN; IRAN; LAMBELASMATIDAE; ORDOVICIAN; RUGOSA; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

X RAYS;

CORAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

IRAN;

ANTHOZOA; RUGOSA (CORALS);

EID: 84873355879     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756812000829     Document Type: Article

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