Gastropoda

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048199617, 2011, Pages 567-587

  Tattersfield, Peter ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental reconstruction; Euonyma harrisoni sp. nov; Gastropoda; Halolimnohelix rowsoni sp. nov; Land snails; Mollusca; Paleoecology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045969219     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_22     Document Type: Chapter

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