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Factors Controlling Graptolite Successions and Assemblages1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. L. Elles
Affiliation:
Reader Emerita in Geology, University of Cambridge.

Extract

The Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Britain afford the most complete succession of graptolite faunas as yet known, but these successions are not always of uniform type, since they are controlled by different factors.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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Footnotes

1

The substance of this paper formed a contribution to a discussion on “The Distribution and Migration of certain Animal Groups in the British Lower Palaeozoic Faunas” held in Section C at the British Association Cambridge Meeting, 19th August, 1938.

References

1 Lapworth, C., “Die Lebensweise der Graptolithen” in Walther's “Ueber die Lebensweise fossiler Meeresthiere,” Zeitsch. d. deutsch. Geol. Gesell., xlix, 1897, 238258.Google Scholar